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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ROMANTICISM HC

By Barbour

One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn

By Robert Sattelmeyer

American realism and the canon

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This collection of twelve essays focuses on a variety of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century texts to illustrate the unprecedented flexibility of the realist mode in American fiction and p...

Moby-Dick

By Andrew Delbanco, Tom Quirk, Herman Melville, Coralie Bickford Smith

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile...

Bergson and American Culture

By Tom Quirk

Research guide to American literature

By Benjamin Franklin V