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  • Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Translated Dialect Edition, Illustrated, eds. Alan Gribben and Irene Wong. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 2025.  A rollicking, nostalgic fantasy about boyhood, this edition is fully annotated and illustrated with over 100 of True Williams’s original drawings. Without racial slurs and with translated dialect, it is the most enjoyable edition of this novel ever published and designed to be read aloud to any audience.

  • Mark Twain’s Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading (Volume One) by Alan Gribben. Through scholarly articles spanning five decades, this first installment of  Mark Twain’s Literary Resources recounts Dr. Alan Gribben’s fascinating lifelong search for surviving volumes from the expansive personal library of Mark Twain.  The volume’s 25 chapters trace from various perspectives the patterns of Twain’s voracious reading and relate what he read to his own literary outpouring. A “Critical Bibliography” evaluates the numerous scholarly books and articles that have studied Twain’s reading, and an index guides readers to the volume’s diverse subjects.

  • Mark Twain’s Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading (Volume Two) by Alan Gribben. Coming in at 1,089 pages, this second volume of Mark Twain’s Literary Resources offers an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain’s literary history. Compiled through a half century of scrupulous scholarship, this book lists every work of literature known to have been read or owned by Twain, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain’s Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America’s greatest author.