The Portable American Realism Reader

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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 th...

Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

By Mark Twain

These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose ge...

American History Through Literature 1820 1920

By Tom Quirk, Robert Sattelmeyer, Gary Scharnhorst, Alja Collar, Janet Gabler Hover

Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

By Tom Quirk

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 pre...

Bergson and American culture

By Tom Quirk

Coming to Grips With Huckleberry Finn

By Tom Quirk

Melville's Confidence man

By Tom Quirk

ROMANTICISM HC

By Barbour

Mark Twain and human nature

By Tom Quirk

"Explores Mark Twain's works--including The Innocents Abroad, Following the Equator, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Puddin' Head Wilson, and What Is Man?--in terms of...