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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer whitewashes a fence, runs off to be a pirate, sees a murder in the graveyard at midnight, and has to decide whether to speak.

Availability
Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
Often read in
Grades 5–9
First published
1876
This edition
Complete, with Twain’s preface and his own two notes.
Pages
232
Prompts
36, one at the close of each chapter
From the book

A prompt from this edition.

Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.

Commonplace

Aunt Polly thinks her supper questions are “marvels of low cunning.” Number her tests of Tom, and beside each note how it turns out. Then look at who is waiting when he climbs in at the window that night. By the end of the day, who has the better of it?

At the close of Chapter I, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The book

Made like the printed Frankenstein

Every title uses our standard page layout and is made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.

  • Size7 × 10 inches
  • Pages232
  • BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
  • CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
  • PaperCream, 120 gsm
  • EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
  • RibbonPale gold marker
  • The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
  • Prompts36, one at the close of each chapter
  • MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio