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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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Otros Autores: Gerber, John C. (writer of foreword.), Firkins, Terry (Editor ), Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 (Ilustrador), Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928 (Ilustrador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Edición:3rd ed.
Colección:Mark Twain Library.
Temas:
Sawyer, Tom > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Finn, Huckleberry > (Fictitious character)
Sawyer, Tom > (Fictitious character)
Adventure stories, American.
Humorous stories, American.
Boys > Fiction.
Récits humoristiques américains.
Garçons > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Boys.
Missouri > Fiction.
Missouri > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Missouri.
Fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes explanatory notes for both titles and a note on the texts.
ISBN:9780520950610
0520950615
1283291916
9781283291910
9786613291912
6613291919

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