Tom Sawyer abroad ; Tom Sawyer, detective
by
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title
:
Tom Sawyer abroad ; Tom Sawyer, detective
Author
:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
ISBN
:
9780520950610
Edition
:
3rd ed.
Publication Information
:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (208 pages).
Series
:
Mark Twain Library.
Abstract
:
These unjustly neglected works are among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels. Tom Sawyer Abroad sets the three characters so popular in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim--and sends them on a balloon trip to Africa. The balloon has wings and fans which can propel it a hundred miles an hour in still air and three hundred miles an hour with a stiff tail wind. Tom is again the manager, the one with information and imagination. Huck is still the one with a literal mind and common sense, and Jim, though the oldest, is once more the most limited in experience and the most burdened by superstition. Tom Sawyer, Detective is not only a detective story but also a burlesque of detective stories. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn perform throughout as a youthful imitation of the immensely popular Sherlock Holmes, with Huck as a counterpart of Dr. Watson. To everyone's wonderment Tom deduces who the murderer is, and Huck catches the spirit of the whole when he says "Well, sir, if there’d been a brass band to bust out some music, then, it would 'a' been just the perfectest thing I ever see, and Tom Sawyer he said the same."
Personal Subject
:
Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)-Fiction.
Subject Term
:
Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Adventure stories, American.
Humorous stories, American.
Boys -- Fiction.
Added Author
:
Gerber, John C.,
Firkins, Terry.
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941,
Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928,
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Tom Sawyer, detective.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 375789-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |