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The adventures of Tom Sawyer ; Tom Sawyer abroad
This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through unauthorized changes and inadvertent errors, Mark Twain's first publishers brought out texts full of thousands of errors in form and content. Later publishers then based their reprints on these corrupt editions and added errors of their own. It is the aim of the Iowa-California edition to strip away this accretion of error and present texts faithful to the author's intention. By comparing all the life-time version of Mark Twain's works, the editors are able to isolate the author's revisions from the printers and publishers' changes. The record of this comparison supplies not only the evidence for editorial decisions, but also the history of the author's efforts to shape his work. In addition, these volumes include previously uncollected work, work that has long been out of print, and such unpublished writing as related drafts, working notes, and marginalia. The texts are established at the Center for Textual Studies at the University of Iowa or at the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The costs for editorial work have been met by generous support from the Editing Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and other institutional and private donors. The edition is published by the University of California Press with financial assistance from the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. All volumes are submitted to the Center for Editions of american Authors, or to its successor, the Committee for Scholarly Editions, for examination and approval
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of Twain's hard-to-find letters and notes expressing his always-engaging opinions on the publication of Tom Sawyer.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
This isMark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. \"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred, \" he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the \"200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication.
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Suggestions for a Commonsense Reform of the English Curriculum
However English teachers may think of themselves, they are basically teachers of reading & writing. This emphasizes the unique & essential public service they perform. The clientele is everyone, almost literally everyone from cradle to grave, & the subject matter is every product of the verbal imagination. The undergraduate program should be designed to teach students to read & write at whatever necessary level & in whatever genre & mode. The graduate program should be unmistakably professional. Graduate students should not leave the classrooms unless they can write clearly, read the hardest texts with understanding, use research techniques effectively, & be able to teach writing & reading at whatever necessary level. The most useful departments of English in the future will be those (1) that seriously ask themselves how they can best serve their contemporaries, & (2) that reorder their work as best they can in order to do so. AA
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