The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393926033)

"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides students with the standard source materials often cited by critics--Twain's stories of Good and Bad Boys, his Boy's Manuscript, his correspondence with William Dean Howells, and his 1870 letter to Will Bowen. This section also includes lesser-known but valuable contextual materials, among them Twain's journalistic description of school exercise and the discussion of Perry Davis' Pain Killer and other nineteenth-century nostrums.

"Criticism" includes interpretations by William Dean Howells, Hamlin L. Hill, Judith Fetterley, Alan Gribben, Glenn Hendler, Carter Revard, and Susan R. Gannon.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 0393926036
ISBN-13: 9780393926033
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2006
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.22w x 0.85d