Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Classic Reprint)
Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain'sTales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches(1994) and Ambrose Bierce'sTales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories(2000) and co-editor ofThe Portable American Realism Reader(1997). His other books includeComing to Grips with Huckleberry Finn(1993),Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction(1997) andNothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination(2001).