The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

1998 | New edition
Oxford Paperbacks (Verlag)
978-0-19-283389-1 (ISBN)

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Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg make him a quintessentially American figure both at home and abroad and have made this one of Mark Twain's most popular novels.

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations. The very success of the novel has obscured its contradictions and the extent to which the author's response to contemporary cultural developments was a mixed one. "Tom Sawyer" is not only a deft comedy and a powerful celebration of childhood. It also reflects how Mark Twain was in the process of finding his distinctive voice, a voice with which he could express the conflicts he felt about coming of age in America.

Introduction; Note on the text; Select bibliography; A chronology of Mark Twain; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Explanatory notes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1998
Reihe/Serie	Oxford World's Classics
Co-Autor	Lee Clark Mitchell
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-19-283389-8 / 0192833898
ISBN-13	978-0-19-283389-1 / 9780192833891
Zustand	Neuware