Studies in Short Fiction, January 1st, 1996
Edited and introduced by Tom Quirk. New York: Penguin, 1994. xxxv + 410 pages. $10.95 paper. This superb new collection counters Twain's own definition of a literary "classic": it is a book everyone will want to read. Scrupulously edited by a distinguished Twainian, Tom Quirk (author of Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man [1993] and the annual Twain bibliographic essay for American Literary Scholarship), the volume comprises Twain's writings in multiple genres from 1863--when young Sam Clemens first published a sketch signed "Mark Twain"--to the posthumou...
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