The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. He got back home barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day’s wood and split the kindlings before supper–at least he was there

Keep Reading 0

Jim’s escape

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it–namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is

Keep Reading 0

Intellectual and Moral Education

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

Keep Reading 0

Conflict between civilization and natural life

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it–namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is

Keep Reading 0

Superstition

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

Keep Reading 0

Superstitions and Folk Beliefs

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

The new boy went off brushing the dust from his clothes, sobbing, snuffling, and occasionally looking back and shaking his head and threatening what he would do to Tom the “next time he caught him out

Keep Reading 0

Intellectual and Moral Education

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man’s are to a man, but because a new and powerful inter

Keep Reading 0

Mississippi River

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence. She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom’s statement true. When she found the entire fence white

Keep Reading 0

Reception

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.

The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a wor

Keep Reading 0

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence. She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom’s statement true. When she found the entire fence white

Keep Reading 1