Short stories for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories
By: Sara Constantakis, project editor
Series: Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781414449609; 9781414442129
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Short story; Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: 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.
Notes: "ISSN 1092-7735."

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Aunty Misery  -- by Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: B. Wordsworth  -- by V.S. Naipaul; title: The censors  -- by Luisa Valenzuela; title: Contents of the dead man's pocket  -- by Jack Finney; title: Dog star  -- by Arthur C. Clarke; title: The doll's house  -- by Katherine Mansfield; title: Forty-five a month  -- by R.K. Narayan; title: The grasshopper and the bell cricket  -- by Yasunari Kawabata; title: Ha'penny  -- by Alan Paton; title: The pit and the pendulum  -- by Edgar Allan Poe; title: A problem  -- by Anton Chekhov; title: Suzy and Leah  -- by Jane Yolen; title: Thank you, ma'm  -- by Langston Hughes; title: Where have you gone charming Billy? -- by Tim O'Brien.