A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project.
This definitive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the worldisquo;s best-loved books, was the first version since the original publication to be based directly on the author squo;s manuscript. It includes all of the idquo;200 rattling pictures dquo; Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemensesquo;s papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume also contains a wealth of helpful explanatory notes, along with a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publicationedash;everything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.
