Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective / Edition 1

by Mark Twain, Terry Firkins, John C. Gerber, Daniel Carter Beard

Overview

These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost.

“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 these once-celebrated but now little-known sequels to his own adventures. Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas and see some of the world’s greatest wonders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520271517
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Mark Twain Library , #2
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	290,900
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

TOM SAWYER ABROAD

1. Tom Seeks New Adventures

2. The Balloon Ascension

3. Tom Explains

4. Storm

5. Land

6. It's a Caravan

7. Tom Respects the Flea

8. The Disappearing Lake

9. The Discourses on The Desert

10. The Treasure-Hill

11. The Sand-Storm

12. Jim Standing Siege

13. Going for Tom's Pipe

TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Tom Sawyer, Detective

NOTE ON THE TEXTS