The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Criticism

Budd, Louis J. and Cady, Edwin H., eds. On Mark Twain: The Best from "American Literature. " Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1987, 303 p.

Collection of reprinted essays from the journal American Literature. Contains Hamlin H. Hill's study of Twain's notes and early drafts of Tom Sawyer that show the evolution of the final manuscript of the novel, as well as an analysis of "Mark Twain and the Endangered Family" by James Grove.

Byers, John R., Jr. "A Hannibal Summer: The Framework of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." Studies in American Fiction 8, No. I (Spring 1980): 81-8.

Analysis of narrative structure in Tom Sawyer that focuses on the book's portrayal of the passage of time.

Cox, James M. "Remarks on the Sad Initiation of Huckleberry Finn." Sewanee Review LXII, No. 3 (July-September 954): 389-405.

Contends that Tom Sawyer functions as Huck's "other...

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