The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations

Mark Twain, Paul Baender

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780520343634
• eBook ISBN: 9780520380448
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world's best-loved books, was the first version since the original publication to be based directly on the author's manuscript. It includes all of the "200 rattling pictures" Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume also contains a wealth of helpful explanatory notes, along with a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication—everything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.

Table of contents

• Subvention
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• The Writing of Tom Sawyer
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Dedication
• Preface
• 1.   Y-o-u-u Tom—Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty—Tom Practices Music—The Challenge—A Private Entrance
• 2.   Strong Temptations—Strategic Movements—The Innocents Beguiled
• 3.   Tom as a General—Triumph and Reward—Dismal Felicity—Commission and Omission
• 4.   Mental Acrobatics—Attending Sunday-School—The Superintendent—“Showing off”—Tom Lionized
• 5.   A Useful Minister—In Church—The Climax
• 6.   Self-Examination—Dentistry—The Midnight Charm—Witches and Devils—Cautious Approaches—Happy Hours
• 7.   A Treaty Entered Into—Early Lessons—A Mistake Made
• 8.   Tom Decides on his Course—Old Scenes Re-enacted
• 9.   A Solemn Situation—Grave Subjects Introduced—Injun Joe Explains
• 10.   The Solemn Oath—Terror Brings Repentance—Mental Punishment
• 11.   Muff Potter Comes Himself—Tom’s Conscience at Work
• 12.   Tom Shows his Generosity—Aunt Polly Weakens
• 13.   The Young Pirates—Going to the Rendezvous—The Camp-Fire Talk
• 14.   Camp-Life—A Sensation—Tom Steals Away from Camp
• 15.   Tom Reconnoiters—Learns the Situation—Reports at Camp
• 16.   A Day’s Amusements—Tom Reveals a Secret—The Pirates take a Lesson—A Night Surprise—An Indian War
• 17.   Memories of the Lost Heroes—The Point in Tom’s Secret
• 18.   Tom’s Feelings Investigated—Wonderful Dream—Becky Thatcher Overshadowed—Tom Becomes Jealous—Black Revenge
• 19.   Tom Tells the Truth
• 20.   Becky in a Dilemma—Tom’s Nobility Asserts Itself
• 21.   Youthful Eloquence—Compositions by the Young Ladies—A Lengthy Vision—The Boys’ Vengeance Satisfied
• 22.   Tom’s Confidence Betrayed—Expects Signal Punishment
• 23.   Old Muff’s Friends—Muff Potter in Court—Muff Potter Saved
• 24.   Tom as the Village Hero—Days of Splendor and Nights of Horror—Pursuit of Injun Joe
• 25.   About Kings and Diamonds—Search for the Treasure—Dead People and Ghosts
• 26.   The Haunted House—Sleepy Ghosts—A Box of Gold—Bitter Luck
• 27.   Doubts to be Settled—The Young Detectives
• 28.   An Attempt at No. Two—Huck Mounts Guard
• 29.   The Pic-nic—Huck on Injun Joe’s Track—The “Revenge” Job—Aid for the Widow
• 30.   The Welchman Reports—Huck Under Fire—The Story Circulated—A New Sensation—Hope Giving Way to Despair
• 31.   An Exploring Expedition—Trouble Commences—Lost in the Cave—Total Darkness—Found but not Saved
• 32.   Tom tells the Story of their Escape—Tom’s Enemy in Safe Quarters
• 33.   The Fate of Injun Joe—Huck and Tom Compare Notes—An Expedition to the Cave—Protection Against Ghosts—“An Awful Snug Place”—A Reception at the Widow Douglas’s
• 34.   Springing a Secret—Mr. Jones’ Surprise a Failure
• 35.   A New Order of Things—Poor Huck—New Adventures Planned
• Conclusion
• Explanatory Notes
• Sources for Characters
• Note on the Text