Citations:Tom Sawyeresque


 * 1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922–1928, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674083911, part 3, chapter 7, :
 * Lin P'ei's mother warned him that though P'eng P'ai had no need to fear starvation, the Lin family was not so fortunate. P'eng claims that he bought some time against this threat by a Tom Sawyeresque ruse.


 * 1999, Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, The Guilford Press, ISBN 1572304626, chapter 7, :
 * I had tried, as had his psychiatrist and several emotionally astute relatives and friends, to confront his stubborn suicidality by making his anger more conscious, by analyzing his irrational but understandable conviction that he was bad, by calling his attention to his wishes to pay his mother back for her abuse of him by mortifying her with his suicide, by realistically looking at what it would mean to his wife and three children if he killed himself, and by exploring his Tom Sawyeresque fantasies of what people would feel and say at his funeral.


 * 2003, William B. Friedricks, In for the Long Haul: The Life of John Ruan, University of Iowa Press (2010), ISBN 1587299178, chapter 1, :
 * Such was the life of John Ruan through the summer of 1929. He had enjoyed a Tom Sawyeresque childhood and learned that hard work and ingenuity paid handsome monetary rewards.


 * 2005, David Marusek, Counting Heads, Tom Doherty Associates (2007), ISBN 9780765317544, :
 * I was surprised, but not flattered. I had long ago sworn off reviews of my work. Something about this one caught my eye, though, as it must have Skippy's. Remember, this was only a few years after my reputed mulching at the hands of the Homeland Command, and this was my first major retrospective. I found the prospect of watching it too Tom Sawyeresque to resist.