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Short stories for students. Volume 5 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories / Tim Akers and Jerry Moore, project editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, [(c)1999.]Description: 1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414428161
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version --: LOC classification:
  • PN3373
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Contents:
Vol. 5: Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Han's crime / Shiga Naoya -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut -- A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Melanctha / Gertrude Stein -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Snapshots of a wedding / Bessie Head -- Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- What I have been doing lately / Jamaica Kincaid -- The wave / Liam O'Flaherty -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers.
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. 5: Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Han's crime / Shiga Naoya -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut -- A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Melanctha / Gertrude Stein -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Snapshots of a wedding / Bessie Head -- Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- What I have been doing lately / Jamaica Kincaid -- The wave / Liam O'Flaherty -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers.

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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