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1	The Portable American Realism Reader more books like this by Various, James Nagel (Editor), Tom Quirk (Editor) During the pivotal period of America's international emergence between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on 20th-century American and world literature. Here is an extensive collection of the finest ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
2	Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: And Other Stories more books like this by Ambrose Bierce, Tom Quirk (Introduction by) Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and completely vanished off the face of the earth. Though his ultimate fate remains a mystery to this day, Bierce's contribution to American letter's rests firmly on the basis of his incomparable Devil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $9.04! \| SVS
3	Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man more books like this by Tom Quirk In Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn, Tom Quirk traces the history of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture. By approaching Twain's novel from several quite different perspectives, Quirk reveals how the author's imagination worked and why this novel has affected so ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $4.94! \| first editions
4	Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches more books like this by Mark Twain, Tom Quirk (Editor) Mark Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skillfully adapted, extended, or satirized literary conventions--guided only by his unruly imagination. These pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention and his extraordinary emotional range. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $10.24! \| SVS
5	Writing the American Classics more books like this by James Barbour (Editor), Tom Quirk (Editor) see all copies from $2.07! new only from $27.00! \| first editions
6	Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings more books like this by Tom Quirk (Editor), James Barbour (Editor) The story behind the composition and publication of a literary work is often almost as interesting as the work itself. The essays gathered here under the skillful editorship of James Barbour and Tom Quirk present the fascinating "biographies" of ten well-known works by some of the most inventive and important authors in American literature. From ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.34! \| first editions
7	Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination more books like this by Tom Quirk Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, Nothing Abstract is a collection of essays gathered over the past twenty years -- all of which, in some fashion, have to do with a genetic approach to literary study. In previous books, the author has traced and discussed the com-positional histories of certain literary works. In this book, Tom ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $55.73!
8	Mark Twain and Human Nature more books like this by Tom Quirk Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment--and to understand why. Now one of America's preeminent ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $38.75! \| SVS
9	Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies more books like this by Joseph Csicsila, Tom Quirk (Foreword by) see all copies from $19.47! new only from $39.75!
10	Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight more books like this by Tom Quirk see all copies from $12.34! first editions
11	American Realism and the Canon more books like this by Tom Quirk This collection of twelve essays focuses on a variety of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century texts to illustrate the flexibility of the realist mode in American fiction and poetry. As the volume demonstrates, the realist era was hospitable to a multitude of writers who voiced the most urgent concerns of race and ethnicity, gender, class, ... see all copies from $55.62! first editions
12	Business Planning Guide for Jail Industries (Sudoc J 26.30: J 19) by Tom Quirk see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00!
13	Mark Twain more books like this by Tom Quirk (Editor) Tom Quirk's study provides a comprehensive analysis of the comic genius and narrative originality that makes Mark Twain's short fiction a cornerstone of the American literary tradition. Quirk's presentation of Twain's career as a writer of short fiction is complemented with selections of Twain's essays rounds out this balanced and informative work ... see all copies from $75.46! new only from $75.46!
14	American History Through Literature, 1870-1920 more books like this by Tom Quirk Designed for the general reader, this six-volume set presents literature as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history. The set features ... see all copies from $331.04!
15	The unfolding of Moby-Dick : essays in evidence (a fragment) more books like this by Leon Howard, James Barbour, Tom Quirk see all copies from $25.00!

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