Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Introduced by Russell Baker ISBN: 978-1-59853-087-2 256 pp. / $7.95 Printed on high-quality acid-free paper SAVE 20% and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the U.S. when you order from the LOA Web Store! Web Store Price: $6.36

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Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our national writers. Tom Sawyer, according to Twain, “is simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book in which nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions and perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. It is filled with comic and melodramatic adventure, with horseplay and poetic evocations of scenery, and with characters who have become central to American mythology.

Russell Baker was the author of the nationally syndicated “Observer” column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998. He is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, one for distinguished commentary in 1979 and the second for his autobiography, Growing Up (1982). His nearly 20 books include The Norton Book of Light Verse (1986) and Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor (1993). From 1993 until 2004, he was the regular host of the PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre.