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Tom Quirk

Author of Coming to Grips With Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man

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About the Author

Tom Quirk is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Works by Tom Quirk

Coming to Grips With Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man (1993) 13 copies

American History Through Literature, 1870-1920 (2005) 13 copies

Critical Essays on American Romanticism (1986) 12 copies

Mark Twain and human nature (2007) 6 copies

Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) 5 copies

Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings (1995) 5 copies

Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001) 3 copies

Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight (1982) 2 copies

Bergson and American culture : the worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens (1990) 2 copies

American History Through Literature, 1870-1920: Volume 3 (2006) 2 copies

Associated Works

Moby Dick (1851) — Commentary, some editions; Editor, some editions — 41,490 copies, 615 reviews

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2006) — Contributor — 194 copies, 2 reviews

Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (Penguin Classics) (1994) — Editor — 173 copies

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Gender: male
Occupations: professor of English
Organizations: University of Missouri-Columbia

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American History Through Literature, 1870-1920 (2006)

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Rating: 3.8

ISBNs: 23

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