The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th Anniversary Edition

Mark Twain, Paul Baender

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780520266124
• eBook ISBN: 9780520946323
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This isMark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred, " he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the "200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• The Writing of Tom Sawyer
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Dedication Page
• 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