Mark Twain. TOM SAWYER. Easton Press edition with Norman Rockwell illustrations.
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Mark Twain. TOM SAWYER. Easton Press edition with Norman Rockwell illustrations.:
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Thomas Sawyeris the title character of theMark TwainnovelThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884),Tom Sawyer Abroad(1894), andTom Sawyer, Detective(1896).
Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works,Huck and Tom Among the Indians,Schoolhouse HillandTom Sawyer\'s Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, onlyTom Sawyer\'s Conspiracyhas a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters.
Tom Sawyer is a boy of about 12 years of age, who resides in the fictional town of St. Petersburg,Missouri, in about the year 1845. Tom Sawyer\'s best friends includeJoe HarperandHuckleberry Finn. InThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom\'sinfatuationwith classmateBecky Thatcheris apparent as he tries to intrigue her with his strength, boldness, and handsome looks. He first sees her after he confessed his feelings forAmy Lawrence, one of his classmates. He lives with his half-brotherSid, his cousin Mary, and his sternAunt Polly. There is no mention of Tom\'s father, as Tom\'s mother and father are dead. Tom has another aunt,Sally Phelps, who lives very much farther down the Mississippi.[1]
InThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom is only a minor character and is used as afoilfor Huck, particularly in the later chapters of the novel after Huck makes his way to Uncle Phelps\'s plantation. Tom\'s immaturity, imagination, and obsession with stories put Huck\'s planned rescue of the runaway slaveJimin great jeopardy — and ultimately make it unnecessary since he knows Jim\'s owner has died and freed him in her will. Throughout the novel, Huck\'s intellectual and emotional development is a central theme, and by re-introducing a character from the beginning (Tom), Twain is able to highlight this evolution in Huck\'s character.
Inspiration[edit]The fictional character\'s name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer with whom Twain was acquainted inSan Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at theSan Francisco Call.[2][3]Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth, \"Sam, he would listen to these pranks of mine with great interest and he\'d occasionally take \'em down in his notebook. One day he says to me: ‘I am going to put you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.’ ‘Go ahead, Sam,’ I said, ‘but don’t disgrace my name.’\"[3]Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in 1907), William Bowen (who died in 1893) and Twain;[3]however Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, \"The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerbyMark Twainis an 1876novelabout a young boy growing up along theMississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictionaltownof St. Petersburg, inspired byHannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy.[2]In the novelTomhas several adventures, often with his friend, Huck. One such adventure, Tom\'s whitewashing of a fence, has been adapted into paintings and referenced in other pieces of popular culture. Originally a commercial failure[3]the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain\'s works during his lifetime.[4]
Tom Sawyerlives with hisAunt Pollyand his half-brotherSid. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work.
Tom falls in love withBecky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get \"engaged\" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been \"engaged\" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompaniesHuckleberry Finnto the graveyard at night, where they witness a trio ofbody snatchers, Dr. Robinson, Muff Potter, andInjun Joe, getting into a fight in which Robinson is murdered by Injun Joe.
Tom AndHuckleberry Finnswear a blood oath to not tell anyone about the murder, as they feel that if they do, Injun Joe would murder them.
Bored by school, Tom, hisbest friend Joe Harper, and Huck run away to an island in the Mississippi called Jackson\'s Island. While enjoying their new-found freedom, they become aware that the community is sounding the river for their bodies. Tom sneaks back home one night to observe the commotion. After a brief moment of remorse at his loved ones\' suffering, he is struck by the idea of appearing at his own funeral. The trio later carry out this scheme by making a sensational sudden appearance in the church in the middle of their joint funeral service.
Back in school, Tom gets himself back in Becky\'s favor after he nobly accepts the blame and punishment for a book she has ripped.
In court, Joe pins the murder on Muff Potter, but Tom and Huckleberry Finn know he is innocent. At Potter\'s trial, Tom decides to speak out and Joe escapes through a window before he can be apprehended. Henceforth the boys live in constant fear of Joe\'s revenge on them for incriminating him.
Summer arrives, and Tom and Huck go hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house. After venturing upstairs they hear a noise below. Peering through holes in the floor, they see Injun Joe disguised as a deaf-mute Spaniard; Injun Joe and his companion plan to bury some stolen treasure of their own. From their hiding spot, Tom and Huck wriggle with delight at the prospect of digging it up. By chance the villains discover an even greater gold hoard buried in the hearth and carry it all off to a better secret hiding place. The boys are determined to find where it has gone. One night Huck spots them and follows them. He overhears their plans to attack the wealthy Widow Douglas. By running to fetch help, Huck prevents the crime and becomes an anonymous hero.
In the meantime, Tom goes on a picnic toMcDougal\'s Cavewith Becky and their classmates. Tom and Becky get separated from the others and wander lost in the extensive cave complex for the next few days. Becky gets extremely dehydrated and starved, so Tom\'s search for a way out gets even more desperate. He accidentally encounters Injun Joe in the caves one day, but is not seen by his nemesis. Eventually, he finds a way out, and they are joyfully welcomed back by their community. As a preventive measure, Judge Thatcher, Becky\'s father, has McDougal\'s Cave sealed off with an iron door, but this traps Injun Joe inside. When Tom hears of the sealing several days later and directs a posse to the cave, they find Injun Joe\'s corpse just inside the sealed entrance, starved to death.
A week later, having deduced from Injun Joe\'s presence at McDougal\'s Cave that the villain must have hidden the stolen gold inside, Tom takes Huck to the cave and they find the box of gold, the proceeds of which are invested for them. The Widow Douglas adopts Huck, but he finds the restrictions of a civilized home life painful. He attempts to escape back to his vagrant life. Tom tricks him into thinking that he can later join Tom\'s new scheme of starting a robber band if he returns to the widow. Reluctantly, Huck agrees and goes back to her.
See alsoList ofTom style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The novel has elements of humor, satire and social criticism; features that later madeMark Twainone of the most important authors ofAmerican literature. Mark Twain describes some autobiographical events in the book. The novel is set around Twain\'s actual boyhood home ofHannibal, near St. Louis, and many of the places in it are real and today support a tourist industry as a result.[5]
Norman Percevel Rockwell(February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection ofAmerican culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created forThe Saturday Evening Postmagazine over nearly five decades.[1]Among the best-known of Rockwell\'s works are theWillie Gillisseries,Rosie the Riveter,The Problem We All Live With,Saying Grace, and theFour Freedomsseries. He also is noted for his 64-year relationship with theBoy Scouts of America(BSA), during which he produced covers for their publicationBoys\' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect theScout OathandScout Lawsuch asThe Scoutmaster,A Scout is Reverent[2]andA Guiding Hand,[3]among many others.
Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Most of his works are either in public collections, or have been destroyed in fire or other misfortunes. Rockwell also was commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, includingTom SawyerandHuckleberry Finnas well as painting the portraits for PresidentsEisenhower,Kennedy,Johnson, andNixon, as well as those of foreign figures, includingGamal Abdel NasserandJawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects includedJudy Garland. One of his last portraits was ofColonel Sandersin 1973. His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts calendars between 1925 and 1976 (Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of theSilver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by theBoy Scouts of America[4]), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the \"Four Seasons\" illustrations forBrown & Bigelowthat were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964. He painted six images for Coca-Cola advertising.[5]Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals (including \"Yankee Doodle Dandy\" and \"God Bless the Hills\", which was completed in 1936 for theNassau InninPrinceton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell\'s œuvre as an illustrator.
Rockwell\'s work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime.[6]Many of his works appear overly sweet in the opinion of modern critics,[7]especially theSaturday Evening Postcovers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life. This has led to the often-deprecatory adjective, \"Rockwellesque\". Consequently, Rockwell is not considered a \"serious painter\" by some contemporary artists, who regard his work asbourgeoisandkitsch. WriterVladimir Nabokovsneered that Rockwell\'s brilliant technique was put to \"banal\" use, and wrote in his bookPnin: \"ThatDalíis really Norman Rockwell\'s twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in babyhood\". He is called an \"illustrator\" instead of an artist by some critics, a designation he did not mind, as that was what he called himself.[8]
In his later years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism forLookmagazine.[9]One example of this more serious work isThe Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of schoolracial integration. The painting depicts a young black girl,Ruby Bridges, flanked by whitefederal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.[10]This painting was displayed in theWhite Housewhen Bridges met with President Obama in 2011.[11]
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Mark Twain. TOM SAWYER. Easton Press edition with Norman Rockwell illustrations.:
$68.99