Mark Twain 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th Anniversary Edition 

This is Mark Twain’s first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world’s best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain’s own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. ‘Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred, ‘ he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be based directly on the author’s manuscript and to include all of the ‘200 rattling pictures’ Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing
Tom Sawyer and about its original publication.

 

Table of Content

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

THE WRITING OF TOM SAWYER


THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Preface

1. Y -o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty-

Tom Practices Music-The Challenge-A Private

Entrance

2. Strong Temptations-Strategic Movements-The

Innocents Beguiled

3. Tom as a General-Triumph and Reward-Dismal

Felicity-Commission and Omission

4. Mental Acrobatics-Attending Sunday-School-The

Superintendent-‘Showing off’-Tom Lionized

5. A Useful Minister-In Church-The Climax

6. Self-Examination-Dentistry-The Midnight Charm-

Witches and Devils-Cautious Approaches-Happy

Hours

7. A Treaty Entered Into-Early Lessons-A Mistake Made

8. Tom Decides on his Course-Old Scenes Re-enacted

9. A Solemn Situation-Grave Subjects Introduced-

Injun Joe Explains

10. The Solemn Oath-Terror Brings Repentance-

Mental Punishment

11. Muff Potter Comes Himself-Tom’s Conscience

at Work

12. Tom Shows his Generosity-Aunt Polly Weakens

13. The Young Pirates-Going to the Rendezvous-The

Camp-Fire Talk

14. Camp-Life-A Sensation-Tom Steals Away from

Camp

15. Tom Reconnoiters-Learns the Situation-Reports at

Camp

16. A Day’s Amusements-Tom Reveals a Secret-The

Pirates take a Lesson-A Night Surprise-An Indian

War

17. Memories of the Lost Heroes-The Point in Tom’s

Secret

18. Tom’s Feelings Investigated-Wonderful Dream-

Becky Thatcher Overshadowed-Tom Becomes

Jealous-Black Revenge

19. Tom Tells the Truth

20. Becky in a Dilemma-Tom’s Nobility Asserts Itself

21. Youthful Eloquence- Compositions by the Young

Ladies-A Lengthy Vision- The Boys’ Vengeance

Satisfied

22. Tom’s Confidence Betrayed-Expects Signal

Punishment

23. Old Muff’s Friends- Muff Potter in Court-Muff

Potter Saved

24. Tom as the Village Hero- Days of Splendor and

Nights of Horror-Pursuit of Injun Joe

25. About Kings and Diamonds-Search for the Treasure

-Dead People and Ghosts

26. The Haunted House-Sleepy Ghosts-A Box of Gold

-Bitter Luck

27. Doubts to be Settled-The Young Detectives

28. An Attempt at No. Two- Huck Mounts Guard

29. The Pic-nic-Huck on Injun Joe’s Track-The

‘Revenge’ Job-Aid for the Widow

30. The Welchman Reports- Huck Under Fire- The

Story Circulated- A New Sensation- Hope Giving

Way to Despair

31. An Exploring Expedition- Trouble Commences- Lost

in the Cave-Total Darkness-Found but not Saved

32. Tom tells the Story of their Escape-Tom’s Enemy in

Safe Quarters

33 . The Fate of Injun Joe-Huck and Tom Compare

Notes-An Expedition to the Cave-Protection

Against Ghosts-‘An Awful Snug Place’-A Reception

at the Widow Douglas’s

34. Springing a Secret-Mr. Jones’ Surprise a Failure

35. A New Order of Things-Poor Huck-New Adventures

Planned

Conclusion


EXPLANATORY NOTES

SOURCES FOR CHARACTERS

NOTE ON THE TEXT

About the author

The Mark Twain Project, composed of seven editors, is a major editorial and publishing program of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.