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Product Description: Mark Twain claimed he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River. Now one of America s preeminent Twain scholars has interwoven the author s inner life with his writings to produce a meditation on how Twain s understanding of human nature evolved and deepened...read more
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9780826217585 | Univ of Missouri Pr, October 28, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: '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?

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9780826219664 | Univ of Missouri Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Mark Twain claimed he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River.

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By Tom Quirk (corporate author)
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Miscellaneous:

9781414457918 | Gale Group, December 23, 2008, cover price $0.04

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Product Description: This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I. The set features more than 250 survey entries...read more
By Tom Quirk (editor) and Gary Scharnhorst (editor)
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9780684314648 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, December 2, 2005, cover price $540.00 | About this edition: This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I.

Miscellaneous:

9780684314938, titled "American History Through Literature, 1870-1920" | 1 edition (Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, December 21, 2005), cover price $0.04 | About this edition: This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I.

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Alphabetically arranged entries use an integrated 'new historicist' approach to offer a comprehensive overview of the period that spans the early national era through the Civil War to the end of World War I.
By Janet Gabler-Hover (editor), Tom Quirk (editor), Robert Sattelmeyer (editor) and Gary Scharnhorst (editor)
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9780684314686 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, December 2, 2005, cover price $937.00 | About this edition: Alphabetically arranged entries use an integrated 'new historicist' approach to offer a comprehensive overview of the period that spans the early national era through the Civil War to the end of World War I.

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Presents a collection of Mark Twain's stories, essays, and letters. (view table of contents)
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9780140150209 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1977, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of Mark Twain's stories, essays, and letters.

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By Joseph Csicsila and Tom Quirk (foreword by)
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9780817313975 | Original edition (Univ of Alabama Pr, July 1, 2004), cover price $38.50

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9780756732660 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2003, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: 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 the compositional histories of certain literary works, the course of individual careers, and the genesis of literary movements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780826213648 | Univ of Missouri Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Ambrose Bierce and Tom Quirk (editor)
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9780140437560 | Penguin Classics, February 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and completely vanished off the face of the earth.

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Presents forty-seven short stories by such authors as Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Henry James, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton. (view table of contents)
By James Nagel (editor) and Tom Quirk (editor)
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9780140268300 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents forty-seven short stories by such authors as Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Henry James, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton.
9789990112306 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1997, cover price $0.02

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9780805708677 | Twayne Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $44.00

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By James Barbour (editor) and Tom Quirk (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780826210449 | Univ of Missouri Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: 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 many people for so long and in so many curious ways...read more
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9780826209207 | Univ of Missouri Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In "Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn", Tom Quirk traces the history of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture.

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9780826210333 | Reprint edition (Univ of Missouri Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

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By Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780874135244 | Univ of Delaware Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $37.50

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Tom Quirk (editor) and Mark Twain
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9780140434170 | Penguin Classics, October 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind...read more
By James Barbour and Tom Quirk (editor)
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9780807818961 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature.

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9780807842805 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature.

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Product Description: A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value...read more
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9780807818800 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print.

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Hardcover:

9780826203700 | Univ of Missouri Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $22.50

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