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  • Moby-Dick

    or, The Whale

    by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk ...
    Herman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history—featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk.This edition features the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text, approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA.Nominated as one of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

    and Other Stories

    by Ambrose Bierce ...
    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 of short fiction.This new collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and 'Chickamauga', his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Portable American Realism Reader

    by Various ...
    Series series Portable Library
    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 twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mark Twain and Human Nature

    by Tom Quirk ...
    Series Book 1 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    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 Twain scholars takes a closer look at this icon’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Canons by Consensus

    Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

    by Joseph Csicsila ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    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 play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 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 genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Portable Mark Twain

    by 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 memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features ... Read more

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  • Bergson and American Culture

    The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens

    by Tom Quirk ...
    Bergsonian “vitalism” challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility. Quirk traces the impact of Bergsonism upon the American sensibility and shows how individual writers — particularly two such different artists as Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens — appropriated ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Writing the American Classics

    Edited by James Barbour, Tom Quirk ...
    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.The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series Book 1 - The Hunger Games
    This Special Edition of The Hunger Games includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special Edition answers many questions fans have had over the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two)

    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series Book 2 - The Hunger Games
    The second book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and ... Read more

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  • Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series series The Hunger Games
    The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and ... Read more

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