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Quirk is an accomplished critic, as the audience of this work will discover. However, he is also a reader who writes as a reader and for readers. In doing so he offers a nice swath of ground where critics, scholars, and readers can sit together as they contemplate once again the world of a novel that never seems settled. --The Twainian Quirk's essays are not of the ivory tower kind. That is, his provocative ideas are the kind meant to spark classroom discussion. I intend to use my well-marked copy of the text to do just that. --David Tomlinson, Mark Twain Forum Tom Quirk's richly speculative and lucid study confronts the reader with new lights and sidelights on those central artifacts of American culture: Huckleberry Finn, Huck, Jim, and the man who created them. --American Literature I think that readers will find this a 'book' rather than a collection, a book that demonstrates prolonged, open-minded musing about Twain's novel rather than forcing some idea toward wordy originality. It is highly, highly intelligent, quietly urbane, thought-provoking, original, and totally independent of dogma and fashion. --Louis J. Budd Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN provides an illuminating vision of both the character and the book--a vision telling in its unpretentiousness, its clarity, and its grace. Readers who believe they know Huckleberry Finn well will be surprised at how much they learn. --James M. Cox Quirk's essays are not of the ivory tower kind. That is, his provocative ideas are the kind meant to spark classroom discussion. I intend to use my well-marked copy of the text to do just that. --David Tomlinson, Mark Twain Forum Tom Quirk's richly speculative and lucid study confronts the reader with new lights and sidelights on those central artifacts of American culture: Huckleberry Finn, Huck, Jim, and the man who created them. --American Literature I think that readers will find this a 'book' rather than a collection, a book that demonstrates prolonged, open-minded musing about Twain's novel rather than forcing some idea toward wordy originality. It is highly, highly intelligent, quietly urbane, thought-provoking, original, and totally independent of dogma and fashion. --Louis J. Budd Quirk is an accomplished critic, as the audience of this work will discover. However, he is also a reader who writes as a reader and for readers. In doing so he offers a nice swath of ground where critics, scholars, and readers can sit together as they contemplate once again the world of a novel that never seems settled. --The Twainian Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN provides an illuminating vision of both the character and the book--a vision telling in its unpretentiousness, its clarity, and its grace. Readers who believe they know Huckleberry Finn well will be surprised at how much they learn. --James M. Cox Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN provides an illuminating vision of both the character and the book--a vision telling in its unpretentiousness, its clarity, and its grace. Readers who believe they know Huckleberry Finn well will be surprised at how much they learn. --James M. Cox Tom Quirk's richly speculative and lucid study confronts the reader with new lights and sidelights on those central artifacts of American culture: Huckleberry Finn, Huck, Jim, and the man who created them. --American Literature I think that readers will find this a 'book' rather than a collection, a book that demonstrates prolonged, open-minded musing about Twain's novel rather than forcing some idea toward wordy originality. It is highly, highly intelligent, quietly urbane, thought-provoking, original, and totally independent of dogma and fashion. --Louis J. Budd Quirk's essays are not of the ivory tower kind. That is, his provocative ideas are the kind meant to spark classroom discussion. I intend to use my well-marked copy of the text to do just that. --David Tomlinson, Mark Twain Forum Quirk is an accomplished critic, as the audience of this work will discover. However, he is also a reader who writes as a reader and for readers. In doing so he offers a nice swath of ground where critics, scholars, and readers can sit together as they contemplate once again the world of a novel that never seems settled. --The Twainian

Quirk's essays are not of the ivory tower kind. That is, his provocative ideas are the kind meant to spark classroom discussion. I intend to use my well-marked copy of the text to do just that. --David Tomlinson, Mark Twain Forum

<p> Quirk's essays are not of the ivory tower kind. That is, his provocative ideas are the kind meant to spark classroom discussion. I intend to use my well-marked copy of the text to do just that. --David Tomlinson, Mark Twain Forum

<p> &quot;Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN provides an illuminating vision of both the character and the book--a vision telling in its unpretentiousness, its clarity, and its grace. Readers who believe they know Huckleberry Finn well will be surprised at how much they learn.&quot;--James M. Cox

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Tom Quirk is author or editor of several books, including Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination. He is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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