The Portable American Realism Reader (Portable Library)
James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.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).