Mark Twain's The adventures of Tom Sawyer / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-112) and index.

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Henry Nash Smith on Tom Sawyer, inadequate hero -- James M. Cox on play, pleasure, and showing off in the novel -- Judith Fetterley on Tom as a local antidote to boredom -- Lee Clark Mitchell on appearance and voice in the novel -- E.L. Doctorow on the child reader and the adult reader -- Albert E. Stone offers some general remarks -- Michael J. Kiskis reconsiders Twain's values -- John Bird examines Twain's double narrator strategy -- Harold K. Bush Jr. on attitudes toward religion and the village church -- Roy Blount Jr. on Twain as political commentator -- Works by Mark Twain -- Annotated bibliography.