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The complete online text of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

Save the caves? A Washington University professor in St. Louis warned Wednesday that Missouri, often called the Cave State, is losing too many of its caves to development. "A lot of caves have been filled in, or entrances blocked, or bulldozed over," said Earth and...

Compiled as testament to the “belief in the story as a system of knowledge,” E.L. Doctorow’s book of essays provides a superb overview both of American literature and of the themes the author has taken up over his long and prolific career. Like his earlier...

Compiled as testament to the “belief in the story as a system of knowledge,” E.L. Doctorow’s book of essays provides a superb overview both of American literature and of the themes the author has taken up over his long and prolific career. Like his earlier...

Jennifer DunnWASHINGTON (AP) _ Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday. She was 66.Dunn a favorite of both Bush White Houses, was Washington state's ranking Republican in Congress...

Seelye is an American novelist and the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a reworking of Twain's classic. In the following essay, he interprets the psychological symbolism in Tom Sawyer.

Powers is an American educator and critic who has written several studies of Henry James's works. In the following essay, he explores Tom Sawyer's particular appeal to the American temperament.

Wolff is an American educator and critic. In the following essay, she asserts that Tom Sawyer is a protest against the female-dominated moral code of Twain's day and the lack of suitable masculine role models for boys.

A two-part essay first giving an overview of literature and then analyzing the Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Provides a complex overview of the story, focusing on the title character. Also explores Twain's writing style, giving examples from the novel.

Essay discusses the charms in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.

Explores The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Describes how Twain uses the moral development of the character Tom Sawyer to play out every boy's childhood fantasies of adventure and heroism.