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Short stories for students. Volume 27 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, [(c)2009.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414449586
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3373
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
After twenty years / O. Henry -- American history / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Anxiety / Grace Paley -- Charles / Shirley Jackson -- Eleven / Sandra Cisneros -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Jim Baker's blue jay yarn / Mark Twain -- Liberty / Julia Alvarez -- Race at morning / William Faulkner -- This blessed house / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- The writer in the family / E. L. Doctorow -- Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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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"ISSN 1092-7735."

Includes bibliographies and index.

After twenty years / O. Henry -- American history / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Anxiety / Grace Paley -- Charles / Shirley Jackson -- Eleven / Sandra Cisneros -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Jim Baker's blue jay yarn / Mark Twain -- Liberty / Julia Alvarez -- Race at morning / William Faulkner -- This blessed house / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- The writer in the family / E. L. Doctorow -- Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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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