Tom Sawyer, Detective

For the film adaptation, see Tom Sawyer, Detective (film).
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Harper's Magazine poster by Edward Penfield for the debut of Tom Sawyer, Detective (August 1896)
AuthorMark Twain
IllustratorA.B. Frost[1]
LanguageEnglish
SeriesTom Sawyer
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherHarper Brothers
Publication date
1896
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Preceded byTom Sawyer Abroad 
TextTom Sawyer, Detective at Wikisource

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

Film adaptations

Plagiarism accusation

In 1909, Danish schoolmaster Valdemar Thoresen claimed, in an article in the magazine Maaneds, that the plot of the book had been plagiarized from Steen Blicher's story The Vicar of Weilby. Blicher's work had been translated into German, but not into English, and Twain's secretary wrote Mr. Thoresen a letter, stating, "Mr. Clemens is not familiar with Danish and does not read German fluently, and has not read the book you mention, nor any translation or adaptation of it that he is aware of. The matter constituting 'Tom Sawyer, Detective,' is original with Mr. Clemens, who has never been consciously a plagiarist."[2]

However, in an opening note in the book preceding the first chapter (as republished by Gutenberg Press), the author states:

Note: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts—even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. — M. T.[3]

As the story material (the 1626 trial of Pastor Søren Jensen Quist of Vejlby) predated Blicher, Twain had as much right to use it as Blicher.

See also

References

  1. ^ Tom Sawyer abroad; Tom Sawyer, detective / Mark Twain; with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost; foreword and notes by John C. Gerber; text established by Terry Firkins. The University of Chicago Library. November 2011. ISBN 9780520950610. Retrieved 14 November 2021. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Was 'Tom Sawyer' Danish Or American?; Why Mark Twain Is Charged with 'Borrowing' from Steen Blicher's Story of 'The Vicar of Weilby.'", by Henry S. Leach, New York Times Sunday Magazine, February 6, 1910, p7
  3. ^ 'Tom Sawyer, Detective', Chapter 1
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