Short Stories for Students
Subtitle: Volume 1
Series: Short Stories for Students, Volume 1
Publisher: Thomson Gale; Gale Research Inc
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780787616908
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Short stories; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Study and teaching; Short story; General; Books & Reading; Essays; Stories, plots, etc
Description: Each biannual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Illustrated, Short Stories For Students contains concise synopses of the story's plot, characters and themes, along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism geared specifically toward the high school student. Researchers will also find information on media adaptations of the story, discussion questions, and suggestions on what to read next. Cumulative indexes enable students to access entries via author, title, nationality, and theme. You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format. While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.
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Table of contents: title: Quest Foreword; title: 'An Adventure in Reading' '; title: by Nancy Rosenberger; title: Introduction .; title: Literary Chronology; title: Acknowledgments; title: Araby by James Joyce; title: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain; title: Children of the Sea by Edwidge Danticat; title: The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving; title: The Eatonville Anthology by Zora Neale Hurston; title: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; title: I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen; title: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter; title: King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison; title: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson; title: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell; title: The Open Window by Saki; title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber; title: The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad; title: The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway; title: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury; title: Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing; title: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates; title: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Glossary of Literary Terms; title: Cumulative Author/TitIe Index; title: Nationality/Ethnicity Index; title: Subject/Theme Index