Short stories for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories
By: Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by Thomas E. Barden
Series: Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781414449586; 9781414421858
Subjects: Short story; Study and teaching (Higher); Study and teaching (Secondary)
Description: 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.
Notes: Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: After twenty years  -- O. Henry; title: American history  -- Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: Anxiety  -- Grace Paley; title: Charles  -- Shirley Jackson; title: Eleven  -- Sandra Cisneros; title: A horseman in the sky  -- Ambrose Bierce; title: Jim Baker's blue jay yarn  -- Mark Twain; title: Liberty  -- Julia Alvarez; title: Race at morning  -- William Faulkner; title: This blessed house  -- Jhumpa Lahiri; title: The use of force  -- William Carlos Williams; title: A Wagner matinee  -- Willa Cather; title: The writer in the family  -- E.L. Doctorow; title: Zlateh the goat -- Isaac Bashevis Singer.