SOURCE: "Tom Sawyer, Delinquent," in her Claremont Essays, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964, pp. 143-52.
Trilling is an American editor and critic. In the following essay, which first appeared as a preface to the 1962 Crowell-Collier edition of Tom Sawyer, she analyzes Twain's portrayal of childhood and parental responsibility in the novel.
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