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Short stories for students. Volume 1 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories / Kathlene Wilson, project editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, [(c)1997.]Description: 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428123
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3373
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Contents:
Vol. 1: Araby / James Joyce -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Children of the sea / Edwidge Danticat -- The Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving -- The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- The open window / Saki -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The short, happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Summary: 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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Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

"ISSN 1092-7735."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Vol. 1: Araby / James Joyce -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Children of the sea / Edwidge Danticat -- The Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving -- The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- The open window / Saki -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The short, happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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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