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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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  • Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, for example; they were an education in condescension to women—all by themselves, they created sexual stereotypes!†  (source)
  • But apparently he got something out of Tom Sawyer, even if he didn't read it or write the paper on Mark Twain.†  (source)
  • "You could read me Tom Sawyer," suggested Meggie, "or How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin."†  (source)
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  • For ten bucks, you could graffiti your name on Tom Sawyer's whitewashed fence, but there were few takers.†  (source)
    Tom Sawyer = main character of Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • —Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer They did let Elinor into the bank, despite her torn stockings.†  (source)
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer = Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • The homeboys and I looked like something out of Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer.†  (source)
    Tom Sawyer = main character of Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • Fenoglio You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.†  (source)
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer = Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • By the second grade, I was intimately familiar with and capable of discussing in some detail Tom Sawyer and Uncle Tom's Cabin.†  (source)
    Tom Sawyer = main character of Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.†  (source)
    THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER = Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • She continued to read to him almost every evening, just as she had been doing from the time he had come to live with her, stories of adventure and suspense like Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer, as well as poetry—Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and many others.†  (source)
    Tom Sawyer = main character of Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • HUCKLEBERRY FINN Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago CHAPTER I. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.†  (source)
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer = Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • And that part when you thought Tom Sawyer was dead-you had real tears in your eyes.†  (source)
    Tom Sawyer = main character of Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War (1876)
  • During grace, Bailey stood in the doorway, a figure of obedience, but I knew his mind was on Tom Sawyer and Jim as mine would have been on Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, but for the glittering eyes of wizened old Mr. Taylor.†  (source)
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