Publicado por Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1986
ISBN 10: 0674445279 ISBN 13: 9780674445277
Librería: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. viii+255 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Robinson's argument takes rise from a close analysis of social dynamics as represented in "Tom Sawyer". Robinson finds that Mark Twain's characters are engaged in an elaborate form of social play whose dominant feature is "bad faith," the broad spectrum of deceits people resort to in their quest for social stability and individual equanimity. Characters and author and audience, he argues, share very similar cultural predispositions to affirm and deny. Condition: a near fine copy in like jacket.