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Short stories, Short story, Fiction, Hunting, Islands, survival of the fittest, animal trapping, trapping pits, knouts, hunting dogs, Cossacks, deaf-mutes, snow leopards, jaguars, Juvenile fiction, Hunting stories, Juvenile works, Human hunting, Big game sport, Travel fictionPlaces
Caribbean, Amazon rainforest, Ship-Trap Island, TibetTimes
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I. The first three levels of reading : reading for plot, character, emotional effect. The most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; The lovely leave / Dorothy Parker ; Ida M'Toy / Eudora Welty ; The lament / Anton Chekhov
II. The fourth level of reading : reading for theme. The price of the head / John Russell ; The dry rock / Irwin Shaw
III. The true and the false : an exercise in comparison and criticism. A double-dyed deceiver / O. Henry ; The necklace / Guy De Maupassant
IV. Theme and the individual artist. The leader of the people / John Steinbeck ; The garden party / Katherine Mansfield ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway
V. The approach to theme. A. Theme and plot. The murder on Jefferson Street / Dorothy Canfield
B. Theme and character. The girl / Meridel Le Sueur ; Old Red / Caroline Gordon ; The new dress / Virginia Woolf ; Rain / Somerset Maugham
C. Symbolism. Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken ; The chink and the child / Thomas Burke
D. Fantasy. Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard
VI. Stories for final analysis. The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin ; The long sheet / William Sansom ; In the penal colony / Franz Kafka
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