The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Cover mockup.
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?
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and 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, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts36, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio