Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective

MARK TWAIN

TOM SAWYER
ABROAD

TOM SAWYER,
DETECTIVE

THE MARK TWAIN LIBRARY

The Library offers for the first time popular editions of Mark Twains best works just as he wanted them to be read. These moderately priced volumes, faithfully reproduced from the California scholarly editions and printed on acid-free paper, are sparingly annotated and include all the original illustrations that Mark Twain commissioned and enjoyed.

Huck waited for no particulars. He sprang away
and sped down the hill as fast as his
legs could carry him.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

WE CATCHED A LOT OF THE NICEST FISH YOU EVER SEE

WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY
DAN BEARD AND A. B. FROST

Foreword and Notes by
John C. Gerber

Text established by
Terry Firkins

A publication of the
Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library

These Mark Twain Library texts of Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective are, for the most part, photographic reproductions of the texts published in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad; and Tom Sawyer, Detective, ed. John C. Gerber, Paul Baender, and Terry Firkins (University of California Press, 1980), which was approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA). Portions of each text have been reset to correct errors and to accommodate the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard and A. B. Frost. The reset portions have been proofread in accord with the standards of the CEAA. Mark Twains typescript of chapters 110 of Tom Sawyer, Detective is MS P370A, which was donated to the Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, by the late Milton F. Barlow of Prairie Village, Kansas. On behalf of the Library, permission to make use of this document in editing the text has been graciously extended to the Mark Twain Project by Alexandra Mason, Spencer Librarian. Editorial work on all texts was made possible by generous grants from the United States Office of Education and from the Research Materials Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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The texts of Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer Detective, correctly established for the first time from the authoritative documents, are 1980 by The Regents of the University of California. Editorial foreword, explanatory notes and note on the texts are 1982 by The Regents of the University of California.

The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier edition of this book as follows:

Twain, Mark, 18351910.

Tom Sawyer Abroad; and, Tom

Sawyer, Detective.

(The Mark Twain Library)

I. Gerber, John C. II. Twain, Mark, 18351910. Tom Sawyer, Detective. 1982. III. Title. IV. Series: Twain, Mark, 18351910. Mark Twain Library. PS1320.A2G47 1982 818.409 81-40325

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).

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TOM SAWYER ABROAD

TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE

Published in 1894, Tom Sawyer Abroad is one of Mark Twains major ventures into science fiction. In it he resurrects the three characters so popular in Adventures of Huckleberry FinnTom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jimand sends them on a balloon trip to Africa. The balloon is less ingeniously engineered than the space ships in present-day films and science fiction, but its wings and fans can propel it a hundred miles an hour in still air and three hundred miles an hour with a stiff tail wind.

Although he had previously toyed with the idea of a balloon adventure, Mark Twain clearly got the idea for this particular story from Jules Vernes Five Weeks in a Balloon (1869). From it he adapted such episodes as stopping at an oasis, encountering a lion, using the ladder for rescues, seeing a mirage, and hovering above a caravan while a sandstorm sweeps over it and entombs both people and camels. Yet the antics of Tom and Huck and Jim make the book unmistakably Mark Twains. 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 despairs of ever having an intelligent conversation with his two companions, and they in turn often feel that their arguments have gotten the better of Tom. Popular in its time,