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Short stories for students. Volume 3 : 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)1998.]Description: 1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428147
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3373
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Contents:
Vol. 3: A and P / John Updike -- Axolotl / Julio Cortazar -- Bartleby the scrivener, a tale of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- The door in the wall / H. G. Wells -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- The Japanese quince / John Galsworthy -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- The man who lived underground / Richard Wright -- On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Woman Hollering Creek / Sandra Cisneros.
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. 3: A and P / John Updike -- Axolotl / Julio Cortazar -- Bartleby the scrivener, a tale of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- The door in the wall / H. G. Wells -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- The Japanese quince / John Galsworthy -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- The man who lived underground / Richard Wright -- On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Woman Hollering Creek / Sandra Cisneros.

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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