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The adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th anniversary edition / / Mark Twain; Paul Baender
The adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th anniversary edition / / Mark Twain; Paul Baender
Autore Twain Mark <1835-1910, >
Edizione [3rd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (306 p.)
Disciplina 813.4
Collana Mark Twain Library
Soggetto topico Boys -- Fiction
Child witnesses -- Fiction
Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction
Missouri -- Fiction
Runaway children -- Fiction
Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Runaway children
Fugitive slaves
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature
Soggetto non controllato 19th century
adventure stories
adventures
american authors
american literature
american south
anniversary edition
banned books
boyhood
childhood
children
classic lit
classic literature
coming of age
famous author
famous authors
fiction classics
fiction
growing up
hannibal missouri
high school
huckleberry finn
humor
illustrated
juvenile
literary fiction
mississippi river
mississippi
moral issues
original text
realism
required reading
slavery
small town setting
tom sawyer
young adult fiction
ISBN 1-280-49195-7
9786613587183
0-520-94632-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- THE WRITING OF TOM SAWER -- PREFACE -- 1. Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty- Tom Practices Music-The Challenge-A Private Entrance -- 2. Strong Temptations-Strategic Movements-The Innocents Beguiled -- 3. Tom as a General-Triumph and Reward-Dismal Felicity-Commission and Omission -- 4. Mental Acrobatics-Attending Sunday-School-The Superintendent-"Showing off-Tom Lionized -- 5. A Useful Minister-In Church-The Climax -- 6. Self-Examination-Dentistry-The Midnight Charm- Witches and Devils-Cautious Approaches-Happy Hours -- 7. A Treaty Entered Into-Early Lessons-A Mistake Made -- 8. Tom Decides on his Course-Old Scenes Re-enacted -- 9. A Solemn Situation-Grave Subjects Introduced- Injun Joe Explains -- 10. The Solemn Oath-Terror Brings Repentance- Mental Punishment -- 1 1. Muff Potter Comes Himself-Tom's Conscience at Work -- 12. Tom Shows his Generosity-Aunt Polly Weakens -- 13. The Young Pirates-Going to the Rendezvous-The Camp-Fire Talk -- 14. Camp-Life-A Sensation-Tom Steals Away from Camp -- 15. Tom Reconnoiters-Learns the Situation-Reports at Camp -- 16. A Day's Amusements-Tom Reveals a Secret-The Pirates take a Lesson-A Night Surprise-An Indian War -- 17. Memories of the Lost Heroes-The Point in Tom's Secret -- 18. Tom's Feelings Investigated-Wonderful Dream- Becky Thatcher Overshadowed-Tom Becomes Jealous-Black Revenge -- 19. Tom Tells the Truth -- 20. Becky in a Dilemma-Tom's Nobility Asserts Itself -- 21. Youthful Eloquence-Compositions by the Young Ladies-A Lengthy Vision-The Boys' Vengeance Satisfied -- 22. Tom's Confidence Betrayed-Expects Signal Punishment -- 23. Old Muff's Friends-Muff Potter in Court-Muff Potter Saved -- 24. Tom as the Village Hero-Days of Splendor and Nights of Horror-Pursuit of Injun Joe -- 25. About Kings and Diamonds-Search for the Treasure -Dead People and Ghosts -- 26. The Haunted House-Sleepy Ghosts-A Box of Gold -Bitter Luck -- 27. Doubts to be Settled-The Young Detectives -- 28. An Attempt at No. Two-Huck Mounts Guard -- 29. The Pic-nic-Huck on Injun Joe's Track-The "Revenge" Job--Aid for the Widow -- 30. The Welchman Reports-Huck Under Fire-The Story Circulated-A New Sensation-Hope Giving Way to Despair -- 31. An Exploring Expedition-Trouble Commences-Lost in the Cave-Total Darkness-Found but not Saved -- 32. Tom tells the Story of their Escape-Tom's Enemy in Safe Quarters -- 33. The Fate of Injun Joe-Huck and Tom Compare Notes-An Expedition to the Cave-Protection Against Ghosts-"An Awful Snug Placen-A Reception at the Widow Douglas's -- 34. Springing a Secret-Mr. Jones' Surprise a Failure -- 35. A New Order of Things-Poor Huck-New Adventures Planned -- CONCLUSION -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- SOURCES FOR CHARACTERS -- NOTE ON THE TEXT
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779277203321
Twain Mark <1835-1910, >  
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
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The Free Speech Movement : reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s / / editors, Robert Cohen, Reginald E. Zelnik
The Free Speech Movement : reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s / / editors, Robert Cohen, Reginald E. Zelnik
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (665 pages)
Disciplina 378.1/981/0979467
Altri autori (Persone) CohenRobert <1955 May 21->
ZelnikReginald E
Soggetto topico College students - California - Berkeley - Political activity - History
Student movements - California - Berkeley - History
Soggetto non controllato 1960s
bay area
berkeley
campus
civil rights movement
civil rights
contemporary
essay anthology
essay collection
faculty
free speech
freedom of speech
freedom
fsm
gender politics
gender studies
law
lawyers
legal issues
ministry
mississippi
modern history
modern world
political
politics
revolution
university
wartime
world history
ISBN 9786612759109
1-282-75910-8
1-59734-622-5
0-520-92861-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Free Speech Movement -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions and Credits -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- The Many Meanings of the FSM: In Lieu of an Introduction -- Part One. Roots -- Thirty Years Later: Reflections on the FSM -- From Freedom Now! to Free Speech: The FSM's Roots in the Bay Area Civil Rights Movement -- Holding One Another: Mario Savio and the Freedom Struggle in Mississippi and Berkeley -- Part II. Experience: Fall 1964 -- Students -- War Is Declared! -- My Life in the FSM: Memories of a Freshman -- Gender Politics and the FSM: A Meditation on Women and Freedom of Speech -- Recollections of the FSM -- A View from the South: The Idea of a State University -- Endgame: How the Berkeley Grads Organized to Win -- A View from the Margins -- Dressing for the Revolution -- The "Rossman Report": A Memoir of Making History -- The FSM and the Vision of a New Left -- This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It: The FSM's Nonradical Rank and File -- Faculty and Clergy -- On the Side of the Angels: The Berkeley Faculty and the FSM -- From the Big Apple to Berkeley: Perspectives of a Junior Faculty Member -- When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace -- The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry -- Administration -- Fall of 1964 at Berkeley: Confrontation Yields to Reconciliation -- Part III. Legal and Constitutional Issues -- Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy -- December 1964: Some Reflections and Recollections -- The FSM: A Movement Lawyer's Perspective -- Part IV. Aftermath -- Mario Savio and Berkeley's "Little Free Speech Movement" of 1966 -- The Limits of Freedom: Student Activists and Educational Reform at Berkeley in the 1960's -- The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan -- Mario Savio's Second Act: The 1990's -- Part V. Thoughts about Mario Savio -- Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity -- Remembering Mario -- Mario, Personal and Political -- Elegy for Mario Savio -- On Mario Savio -- Mario Savio: Avatar of Free Speech -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777381303321
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
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Twilight people [[electronic resource] ] : one man's journey to find his roots / / David Houze
Twilight people [[electronic resource] ] : one man's journey to find his roots / / David Houze
Autore Houze David <1965->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina 916.804/6508996073
Collana The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies Twilight people
Soggetto topico African Americans
African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century
Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century
Apartheid - South Africa
Siblings
Soggetto non controllato abandonment
africa
african american
american south
apartheid
autobiography
biography
black
civil rights
colonialism
discrimination
ex pat
expatriate
family
forgiveness
history
identity
immigration
imperialism
lost family
lost siblings
memoir
mississippi
nonfiction
personal narrative
political history
prejudice
race
racial politics
racism
reconciliation
refugee
self discovery
sisters
social history
social issues
south africa
ISBN 0-520-93174-2
1-282-35764-6
9786612357640
1-59875-947-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Twilight People -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- 1. From Down South to Down South -- 2. Into the Breach -- 3. Truth and Reconciliation -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783666103321
Houze David <1965->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
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