The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Klappentext In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, and in a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial, Tom engages readers of all ages. He has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination. Alongside the charm and the excitement, the novel also raises questions about identity, and about attitudes to class and race. Above all, Twain's study of childhood brings into focus emergent notions of individual and literary maturity. Zusammenfassung In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer, resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Twain
• Assisted by: Peter Stoneley (Editor), Stoneley Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 9
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.07.2008
• EAN: 9780199536566
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953656-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; Oxford World's Classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; WORLD'S CLASSIC; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Classic fiction: general and literary