- 所属丛书系列
- Oxford World's Classics
书名: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Oxford World's Classics)
作者: Mark Twain (Author), Peter Stoneley (Editor)
出版社: Oxford University Press (April 2, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0192806823
ISBN-13: 978-0192806826
Book Description
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.
About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer.
Peter Stoneley is a Professor in the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading.
