Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Alan Gribben

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      Facsimile of the title page of the first American edition of Tom Sawyer.

Twain’s Chapter Headings

      Chapter 1—Y-o-u-u Tom—Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty—Tom Practices Music—The Challenge—A Private Entrance

      Chapter 2—Strong Temptations—Strategic Movements—The Innocents Beguiled

      Chapter 3—Tom as a General—Triumph and Reward—Dismal Felicity—Commission and Omission

      Chapter 4—Mental Acrobatics—Attending Sunday-School—The Superintendent—“Showing off”—Tom Lionized

      Chapter 5—A Useful Minister—In Church—The Climax

      Chapter 6—Self-Examination—Dentistry—The Midnight Charm—Witches and Devils—Cautious Approaches—Happy Hours

      Chapter 7—A Treaty Entered Into—Early Lessons—A Mistake Made

      Chapter 8—Tom Decides on his Course—Old Scenes Re-enacted

      Chapter 9—A Solemn Situation—Grave Subjects Introduced—Indian Joe Explains

      Chapter 10—The Solemn Oath—Terror Brings Repentance—Mental Punishment

      Chapter 11—Muff Potter Comes Himself—Tom’s Conscience at Work

      Chapter 12—Tom Shows his Generosity—Aunt Polly Weakens

      Chapter 13—The Young Pirates—Going to the Rendezvous—The Camp-Fire Talk

      Chapter 14—Camp-Life—A Sensation—Tom Steals Away from Camp

      Chapter 15—Tom Reconnoiters—Learns the Situation—Reports at Camp

      Chapter 16—A Day’s Amusements—Tom Reveals a Secret—The Pirates take a Lesson—A Night Surprise—An Indian War

      Chapter 17—Memories of the Lost Heroes—The Point in Tom’s Secret

      Chapter 18—Tom’s Feelings Investigated—Wonderful Dream—Becky Thatcher Over-shadowed—Tom Becomes Jealous—Black Revenge

      Chapter 19—Tom Tells the Truth

      Chapter 20—Becky in a Dilemma—Tom’s Nobility Asserts Itself

      Chapter 21—Youthful Eloquence—Compositions by the Young Ladies—A Lengthy Vision—The Boy’s Vengeance Satisfied

      Chapter 22—Tom’s Confidence Betrayed—Expects Signal Punishment

      Chapter 23—Old Muff’s Friends—Muff Potter in Court—Muff Potter Saved

      Chapter 24—Tom as the Village Hero—Days of Splendor and Nights of Horror—Pursuit of Indian Joe

      Chapter 25—About Kings and Diamonds—Search for the Treasure—Dead People and Ghosts

      Chapter 26—The Haunted House—Sleepy Ghosts—A Box of Gold—Bitter Luck

      Chapter 27—Doubts to be Settled—The Young Detectives

      Chapter 28—An Attempt at No. Two—Huck Mounts Guard

      Chapter 29—The Pic-nic—Huck on Indian Joe’s Track—The “Revenge” Job—Aid for the Widow

      Chapter 30—The Welchman Reports—Huck Under Fire—The Story Circulated—A New Sensation—Hope Giving Way to Despair

      Chapter 31—An Exploring Expedition—Trouble Commences—Lost in the Cave—Total Darkness—Found but not Saved

      Chapter 32—Tom Tells the Story of their Escape—Tom’s Enemy in Safe Quarters

      Chapter 33—The Fate of Indian Joe—Huck and Tom Compare Notes—An Expedition to the Cave—Protection Against Ghosts—“An Awful Snug Place”—A Reception at the Widow Douglas’s

      Chapter 34—Springing a Secret—Mr. Jones’ Surprise a Failure

      Chapter 35—A New Order of Things—Poor Huck—New

      Adventures Planned

      Conclusion

      TO

      MY WIFE

      THIS BOOK

      IS

      AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

       Preface

      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. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.

      The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.

      Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.

      — The Author. Hartford, 1876.

Chapter 1