A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world-s best-loved books, was the first version since the original publication to be based directly on the author-s manuscript. It includes all of the -200 rattling pictures- Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens-s papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume also contains a wealth of helpful explanatory notes, along with a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication-everything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.
