Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Tom Quirk
yhteensä 16 hakutulosta
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil's Dictionary and a remarkable body …
Mark Twain and Human Nature
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 …
Portable Mark Twain
Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most …
Writing the American Classics
This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the …
Coming to Grips with ""Huckleberry Finn
Traces the history of ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" from 1876 to its position in today's American culture. Approaching the novel from several different perspectives, the …
Nothing Abstract
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 …
Bergson and American Culture
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 …
Canons by Consensus
The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last centuryScholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies …
The Portable Mark Twain
Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most …
Portable American Realism Reader
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 …
The Portable American Realism Reader
This is an anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. Realist writers, represented by Mark Twain, Henry …