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Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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Literature, Stories, plots, Short story, History and criticism, Bio-bibliography, Short stories, American Short stories, Study and teaching (Secondary), Study and teaching (Higher), Heart of darkness (Conrad, Joseph), What we talk about when we talk about love (Carver, Raymond), Verwandlung (Kafka, Franz), Goodbye, Columbus (Roth, Philip), Snows of Kilimanjaro (Hemingway, Ernest), Tod in Venedig (Mann, Thomas), Odin den£ Ivana Denisovicha (SolzhenitŁsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich), Jardin de senderos que se bifurcan (Borges, Jorge Luis), Boarded window (Bierce, Ambrose), To build a fire (London, Jack), Man that corrupted Hadleyburg (Twain, Mark), Canterville ghost (Wilde, Oscar), Cask of Amontillado (Poe, Edgar Allan), Shinel£ (Gogol£, Nikolai Vasil£evich), Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving, Washington), Mateo Falcone (Merimee, Prosper), Brat£iŁa Karamazovy (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor), Masque of the red death (Poe, Edgar Allan), Magic barrel (Malamud, Bernard), C¿ur simple (Flaubert, Gustave), Dead (Joyce, James), Beast in the jungle (James, Henry), Rose for Emily (Faulkner, William), Short stories (Carver, Raymond), Bibliography, Everything that rises must converge (O'Connor, Flannery), Grande Breteche (Balzac, Honore de), Bliss (Mansfield, Katherine), Things they carried (O'Brien, Tim), Smert£ Ivana Il£icha (Tolstoy, Leo, graf), Rikki-tikki-tavi (Kipling, Rudyard), Boule de Suif (Maupassant, Guy de), Brokeback Mountain (Proulx, Annie), Pearl (Steinbeck, John), Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe, Edgar Allan)People
Luisa Valenzuela (1938-), Jane Yolen, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-), Jack Finney, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Alan Paton, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Tim O'Brien (1946-), Langston Hughes (1902-1967), V. S. Naipaul (1932-), Hamsad Rangkuti (1943-), Anne Tyler, Anita Desai (1937-), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Walter Dean Myers (1937-), Yoshiko Uchida, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), O. Henry (1862-1910), Julia Alvarez, Stephen Vincent Bene t (1898-1943), Italo Calvino, Julio Corta zar, Nadine Gordimer, Agatha Christie (1890-1976), Jean Stafford (1915-1979), Alice Adams (1926-1999), Gabriel García Márquez (1928-), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Harlan Ellison, Toni Cade Bambara, Peter Ho Davies (1966-), Mark Twain (1835-1910), Akhil Sharma (1971-), Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), Zora Neale Hurston, Woody Allen (1935-), Elizabeth McCracken, Aimee Bender, Peter Baida, Don Lee (1959-), ZZ Packer, Padgett Powell, James Salter, Mark Helprin, Anthony Doerr (1973-), Marisa Silver, Joy Williams (1944-), Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), Edwidge Danticat (1969-), Jie Zhang (1937-), Stephen King (1947-), Eugenia W. Collier, Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Louise Erdrich, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), W. P. Kinsella, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Bessie Head (1937-1986), Chinua Achebe, Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami (1949-), Mary Swan (1953-), Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), Mary Lavin (1912-1996), Heidi Julavits, Julie Orringer, Carolyn Ferrell, Stuart Dybek (1942-), James Alan McPherson (1943-2016), Jose Saramago, James Hurst, Thom Jones, Raymond Carver (1938-1988), Annie Proulx, Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943), Simon J. Ortiz (1941-), Samrat Upadhyay, Lars Gustafsson (1936-), Saul Bellow, John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Mary Yukari Waters, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Aleksandar Hemon (1964-), Robert Olen Butler, Cynthia OzickPlaces
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Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories
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Short stories for students: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories
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Short stories for students: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories
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Table of Contents
The blue hotel -- by Stephen Crane
The country of the blind -- by H.G. Wells
First confession -- by Frank O'Connor
Good country people -- by Flannery O'Connor
Greasy lake -- by T. Coraghessan Boyle
An hour with Abuelo -- by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Impulse -- by Conrad Aiken
The lucky stone -- by Lucille Clifton
The murders in the Rue Morgue -- by Edgar Allan Poe
The night face up -- by Julio Cortazar
The rain came -- by Grace Ogot
Wasps' nest -- by Agatha Christie
The white umbrella -- by Gish Jen
The widow and the parrot : a true story -- by Virginia Woolf.
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"ISSN 1092-7735."
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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