{"product_id":"mark-twains-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-the-newsouth-edition-9781603062336","title":"Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Newsouth Edition","description":"In a radical departure from standard editions, the coming-of-age story that introduces Mark Twain's two most enduring literary characters--Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn--is published here with its disturbing racial labels translated as \"slave\" and \"Indian.\" Everything else is completely intact in a novel that Twain termed a \"hymn to boyhood.\" Tom and Huck fish and swim in the Mississippi River, search for buried treasure, and hide in a haunted house. Around the edges of this idyllic boy-life, however, loom dangerous events in the fictional village of St. Petersburg: Tom and Huck witness a midnight murder in a graveyard, the killer escapes from the courtroom while Tom is testifying, and two sinister villains plot robbery and revenge against a wealthy widow. Readers can follow the boys' adventures without confronting the dozens of racial slurs that are available in other editions of the book. The editor supplies a historical and literary introduction as well as a guide to Twain's satirical targets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDR. ALAN GRIBBEN co-founded the Mark Twain Circle of America, compiled \u003ci\u003eMark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e, and recently co-edited \u003ci\u003eMark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. Gribben has written numerous essays about Mark Twain's life and image. He teaches on the English faculty of Auburn University at Montgomery and edits the \u003ci\u003eMark Twain Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613613363474,"sku":"9781603062336","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_05b7df2a-cdeb-4fb1-8305-e60fddbcfb03.jpg?v=1732411503","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mark-twains-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-the-newsouth-edition-9781603062336","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}