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Sites about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends who live in a town on the Mississippi River.

Characters: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly
Keywords: boys, pranks, treasure, fence

Critical sites about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/mmt/mmt_sawyer.html

"Mr. Clemens, on the contrary, has taken the boy of the Southwest for the hero of his new book, and has presented him with a fidelity to circumstance which loses no charm by being realistic in the highest degree, and which gives incomparably the best picture of life in that region as yet known to fiction."

Contains: Review

Author: Howells, William Dean

From: The Atlantic Monthly December, 1875

Keywords: Mark Twain, contemporary criticism

 

 
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Reviews of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/tomsawye/hompgrev.html

"The following contemporary reviews are arranged chronologically. They can also be searched by date (1876 or 1877); by nationality (American or British); or by tone (Favorable or Unfavorable or Mixed). Additionally, American reviews can be searched by the part of the country in which they appeared (Eastern or Western)."

Contains: Historical Context, Review

Keywords: Mark Twain, contemporary reviews