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Tom sawyer abroad and Tom Sawyer detective / Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Stuart Hutchinson

By: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 [autor].
Contributor(s): Hutchinson, Stuart [Escritor de introducción].
Series: London : Wordsworth editions, 2009Edition: First edition.Description: 188 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 9781840221831.Subject(s): American novel | Adventure stories AmericanDDC classification: 813.4 /
Contents:
General introduction -- Works cited -- Farther reading -- Tom Sawyer abroad -- Tom Sawyer, detective --
Summary: "Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of the first of these once celebrated but now little-known sequels to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These unjustly neglected works are among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels. In Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel across the Atlantic in a futuristic air balloon to encounter lions, robbers, fleas, and some of the world's greatest wonders. In Tom Saywer, Detective, Tom and Huck journey down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Told in Huck's voice and replete with down-hime backwoods Missouri wisdom, these two stories tackle every subject from the Crusades and chronometers to ghosts and swearing popes.
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General introduction -- Works cited -- Farther reading -- Tom Sawyer abroad -- Tom Sawyer, detective --

"Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of the first of these once celebrated but now little-known sequels to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These unjustly neglected works are among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels. In Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel across the Atlantic in a futuristic air balloon to encounter lions, robbers, fleas, and some of the world's greatest wonders. In Tom Saywer, Detective, Tom and Huck journey down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Told in Huck's voice and replete with down-hime backwoods Missouri wisdom, these two stories tackle every subject from the Crusades and chronometers to ghosts and swearing popes.

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