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008 110110s2011    nyu      b    001 0 eng  
010    $a 2011000966
020    $a 161753000X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020    $a 9781617530005 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040    $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d BWX $d DEBBG $d VP@ $d BDX $d UKMGB $d SILO
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050 00 $a PS1306 $b .M38 2011
245 0  $a Mark Twain's The adventures of Tom Sawyer / $c edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
246 30 $a Adventures of Tom Sawyer
260    $a New York : $b Bloom's Literary Criticism, $c c2011.
300    $a 121 p. ; $c 23 cm.
490 0  $a Bloom's guides
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-112) and index.
505 0  $a Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Henry Nash Smith on Tom Sawyer, inadequate hero -- James M. Cox on play, pleasure, and showing off in the novel -- Judith Fetterley on Tom as a local antidote to boredom -- Lee Clark Mitchell on appearance and voice in the novel -- E.L. Doctorow on the child reader and the adult reader -- Albert E. Stone offers some general remarks -- Michael J. Kiskis reconsiders Twain's values -- John Bird examines Twain's double narrator strategy -- Harold K. Bush Jr. on attitudes toward religion and the village church -- Roy Blount Jr. on Twain as political commentator -- Works by Mark Twain -- Annotated bibliography.
520    $a Presents a collection of critical essays on the novel that analyze its structure, characters, narrator, and themes.
600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910. $t Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
650  0 $a Adventure stories, American $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)
650  0 $a Boys in literature.
651  0 $a Mississippi River $x In literature.
650  0 $a Race relations in literature.
700 1  $a Bloom, Harold.
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