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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain, Alyssa Harad, Cynthia Brantley Johnson

ISBN 1416500227 (1-4165-0022-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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This classic novel of childhood is set in fictional St. Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twain s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain s recounting of Tom Sawyer s many escapades is by turns nostalgic, satiric, wise, and hilarious. While this novel is often considered mainly as the precursor to Twain s great work The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is abundantly worth considering for its own deft and loving transformation of autobiography into fiction. In addition to the full text of the novel based on the first American edition, complete with a selection of the original illustrations by True Williams, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of appendices that place the novel in the context of 1840s rural America as well as 1870s literary America. These include materials on the composition and marketing of Tom Sawyer, selections from other "boy books" of the period, and historical documents relating to temperance, children's literature, and schools. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Jean Craighead George, Mark Twain

ISBN 0531169782 (0-531-16978-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub

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Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Marion P. Thayer

ISBN 0822013010 (0-8220-1301-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Scott McKowen

ISBN 1402714602 (1-4027-1460-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? Its something every child should experience and every child will love. From Toms sly trickery with the whitewashed fencewhen he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for himto his and Becky Thatchers calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.

Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Ted Lewin, Mark Twain

ISBN 0671437917 (0-671-43791-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876
by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin

ISBN 0195114051 (0-19-511405-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Tom Sawyer: among America's undisputed contributions to the world's cast of unforgettable characters. [via]
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner

ISBN 0375504524 (0-375-50452-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. [via]
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El Viejo Y El Mar / the Old Man And the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 9687968613 (968-7968-61-3)
Softcover, Libros Sin Fronteras Inventory

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Una de las historias más grandes jamás contadas

En Cuba, un viejo pescador ya en el crepúsculo de su vida, pobre y sin suerte, cansado de regresar cada día sin pesca, emprende una última y arriesgada travesía en busca de una gran pieza. Cuando al fin logra dar con ella, comienza una feroz lucha. Y el regreso a puerto, con el acoso de los elementos y los tiburones, se convierte en una última prueba. Como un rey mendigo, coronado por su imbatible dignidad, el viejo pescador culmina finalmente su destino.

En la cúspide de su maestría, Hemingway alumbró una historia en cuya sencillez vibra el clásico tema del valor ante la derrota, del triunfo personal sacado de la pérdida. El viejo y el mar lo confirmó como uno de los escritores más significativos del siglo XX, obteniendo el Premio Pulitzer y allanando su carrera hacia el Premio Nobel.
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Light in August
by William Faulkner

ISBN 0679732268 (0-679-73226-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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To declare that Light in August is William Faulkner's finest work would be to invoke debate of irreconcilable conclusion. Yet for many followers of Faulkner, this novel showcases many of his best moments and characters. As usual, he mines the rich soil of Mississippi mud to create his subjects, this time in the form of Reverend Gail Hightower, Lena Grove and Joe Christmas. The issue of black and white and rich and poor is prevalent, though to draw lines that clear would be a disservice to Faulkner's immensely layered text and the multicolored beauty of his writing. [via]
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Light in August: A Study in Black and White
by Alwyn Berland

ISBN 0805780505 (0-8057-8050-5)
Hardcover, Twayne Pub

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Mark Twain
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece. [via]
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Novels 1930-1935
by William Faulkner, Joseph Blotner

ISBN 0940450267 (0-940450-26-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the twentieth century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror and compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary," a violent novel of sex and social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the flesh-pots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye and a debutante with an affinity for evil. "Light in August," a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon," a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman. All are presented in restored texts as part of The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulker's complete works. [via]
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]
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The Old Man And the Sea
by Hemingway

ISBN 0684163268 (0-684-16326-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Size is approx 4" x 6" x 1/4" [via]
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: The Adventures of Tom Swayer
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0945260199 (0-945260-19-9)
Hardcover, Choice Pub

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Tom Sawyer: Library Edition
by Mark Twain

ISBN 1591940257 (1-59194-025-7)
Softcover, Townsend Pr

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Though now enshrined as major masterpieces of American literature, Twain's classic tales of childhood remain as fresh as when they were first written. Vivid and funny, the stories chronicle journeys from innocence to experience in which innocence is preserved. [via]
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 1853260118 (1-85326-011-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Literary Studies, Classic Literature, American Literature [via]
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William Faulkner's Light in August
by Leslie A. Juhasz

ISBN 0671006665 (0-671-00666-5)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer / The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
by Julia Daroqui, Not Available, Santos Martinez Koch

ISBN 950110012X (950-11-0012-X)
Hardcover, Editorial Sigmar S.A.C.I.

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Impresor, piloto de un vapor en el Mississippi, soldado confederado, buscador de metales preciosos, periodista e infatigable conferenciante, MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) llego a ser el escritor mas popular de su pais y un mordaz observador de sus contemporaneos. Tejidas en torno a la evocacion de la infancia del autor a orillas del Gran Rio, el Mississippi, LAS AVENTURAS DE TOM SAWYER es una de las mas conseguidas imagenes de ese mundo de suenos, injusticias, rebeldias e ilusiones de la edad que precede a la responsabilidad y al escepticismo. [via]
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El Veijo y el Mar
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0307274195 (0-307-27419-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Una de las historias más grandes jamás contadas

En Cuba, un viejo pescador ya en el crepúsculo de su vida, pobre y sin suerte, cansado de regresar cada día sin pesca, emprende una última y arriesgada travesía en busca de una gran pieza. Cuando al fin logra dar con ella, comienza una feroz lucha. Y el regreso a puerto, con el acoso de los elementos y los tiburones, se convierte en una última prueba. Como un rey mendigo, coronado por su imbatible dignidad, el viejo pescador culmina finalmente su destino.

En la cúspide de su maestría, Hemingway alumbró una historia en cuya sencillez vibra el clásico tema del valor ante la derrota, del triunfo personal sacado de la pérdida. El viejo y el mar lo confirmó como uno de los escritores más significativos del siglo XX, obteniendo el Premio Pulitzer y allanando su carrera hacia el Premio Nobel.
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El Viejo Y El Mar
by Fabio Silva Vallejo

ISBN 9583008028 (958-30-0802-8)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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Il Vecchio E Il Mare
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 8804488255 (88-04-48825-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Un vecchio pescatore cubano lotta contro un gigantesco pescespada, simbolo della fierezza e della libertà della natura. [via]
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