The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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THE ADVENTURES OF
TOM SAWYER
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THE ADVENTURES OF
TOM SAWYER
Mark Twain
edited by Lucy Rollin
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© 2006Lucy Rollin
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Twain,Mark,1835–1910
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ;edited by Lucy Rollin.
(Broadview editions)
Includes bibliographical references.
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Frontispiece by True Williams for the first American edition of
The Adventures ofTom Sawyer(1876).
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Contents
Acknowledgements • 10
Introduction • 11
Mark Twain:A Brief Chronology • 38
A Note on the Text and Illustrations • 41
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • 43
Appendix A:Composition,Marketing,and Reviews of
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1. Composition • 242
a. From Twain’s “Boy’s Manuscript”(c.1870) • 242
b. From “Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography
of Mark Twain,”Harper’s Monthly Magazine
(August 1922) • 244
c. The Tom Sawyer manuscript • 245
d. Twain’s Correspondence with William Dean Howells
(1875–76) • 248
2. Marketing:Advertisement of Subscription Books
(1876) • 251
3 Contemporary Reviews • 254
a. William Dean Howells,Atlantic Monthly
(May 1876) • 254
b. Anonymous,New York World (1 January 1877) • 256
c. Anonymous,New York Times (13 January 1877) • 256
Appendix B:Twain’s Memories of Hannibal
1. Letter to Will Bowen (6 February 1870) • 259
2. Hannibal in 1848 • 261
3. From Twain,Life on the Mississippi (1883) • 262
4. From Twain,“Chapters from My Autobiography,”
North American Review (2 November 1906) • 265
5. From Twain,“Villagers of 1840–43”(1897) • 267
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6. Slavery in Hannibal • 270
a. From Twain,“Chapters from My Autobiography,”North
American Review (1 March 1907) • 270
b. Advertisement for Slaves (1848) • 272
Appendix C:Bad Boys and Boy Books
1. Bad Boys • 273
a. From B.P.Shillaber,Mrs.Partington’s Knitting Work,and
what was done by her plaguy boy Ike (1880) • 273
b. From Twain,“The Story of the Bad Little Boy”
(1865) • 275
2. Boy Books • 277
a. From Thomas Bailey Aldrich,The Story of a Bad Boy
(1869) • 277
b. From Charles Dudley Warner,Being a Boy
(1877) • 282
c. From William Dean Howells,A Boy’s Town
(1890) • 284
Appendix D:A Small-Town American Childhood in the 1840s
1. School • 287
a. From McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book (1846) • 287
b. From the Friends Infant School (1838) • 289
2. Sunday School • 290
a. From “The Sunday-School Child”(1845) • 290
b. From “The glass of whiskey”(1845) • 291
3. The Temperance Movement:Announcement in the
Hannibal Gazette (17 June 1846) • 291
4. Games:From The Boy’s Story Book for Winter Evenings
(1838) • 292
5. The Circus:Advertisement in the Hannibal Gazette
(October 1847) • 293
6. The Minstrel Show • 296
a. Song from “Bone Squash Diavolo”(1835) • 296
b. Dialogue,“Mosquitoes”(1902) • 296
7. Reading • 297
a. Lawrence Lovechild,“The Deceitful Little Boy”
(1840) • 297
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b. From Samuel Griswold Goodrich (“Peter Parley”),
“Bill Vacant and Henry Hawkseye,” Robert Merry’s
Annual,for all seasons (1840) • 298
c. From Jacob Abbott,Rollo Learning to Read
(1855) • 299
d. From Stephen Percy,Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters
(1845) • 301
e. From Ned Buntline,The Black Avenger,Story of the
Spanish Main,The Weekly Novelette (1859) • 306
Select Bibliography • 311