Short stories for students. presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories / Volume 32 : Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Thomas E. Barden. - 1 online resource (xix, 360 pages) : illustrations, portraits - Gale eBooks .

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The haunted boy / Carson McCullers -- The house of Asterion / Jorge Luis Borges -- If you eat, you never die / Tony Romano -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- My Lucy friend who smells like corn / Sandra Cisneros -- The nose / Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol -- On the rainy river / TIm O'Brien -- O yes / Tillie Olsen -- Popular mechanics / Raymond Carver -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- The sisters / James Joyce -- Stalking / Joyce Carole Oates -- The tenant / Bharati Mukherjee.

Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.



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Short story--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Short story--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
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