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WW Norton & Co The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2011 Edition by Mark Twain, Beverly Lyon Clark
"Backgrounds And Contexts" Provides Students With The Standard Source Materials Often Cited By Critics-Twain'S Stories Of Good And Bad Boys, His Boy'S Manuscript, His Correspondence With William Dean Howells, And His 1870 Letter To Will Bowen. This Section Also Includes Lesser-Known But Valuable Contextual Materials, Among Them Twain'S Journalistic Description Of School Exercise And The Discussion Of Perry Davis' Pain Killer And Other Nineteenth-Century Nostrums."Criticism" Includes Interpretations By William Dean Howells, Hamlin L. Hill, Judith Fetterley, Alan Gribben, Glenn Hendler, Carter Revard, And Susan R. Gannon.A Chronology And Selected Bibliography Are Also Included.