The Great American Rascal - Claremont Review of Books
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer marks its 150th anniversary this year.
- It was first published in 1876, the centennial year of the American Founding.
- The novel itself marked its own kind of founding moment for American literature, which had been laboring—to borrow a phrase from The Federalist—under the “arrogant pretensions of the European.
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer marks its 150th anniversary this year.
- It was first published in 1876, the centennial year of the American Founding.
- The novel itself marked its own kind of founding moment for American literature, which had been laboring—to borrow a phrase from The Federalist—under the “arrogant pretensions of the European.
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