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; Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781414482347; 9781414485836
Subjects: Short story; Study and teaching (Higher); Study and teaching (Secondary); Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe, Edgar Allan)
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: "ISSN 1092-7735."

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The blue hotel  -- by Stephen Crane; title: The country of the blind  -- by H.G. Wells; title: First confession  -- by Frank O'Connor; title: Good country people  -- by Flannery O'Connor; title: Greasy lake  -- by T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: An hour with Abuelo  -- by Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: Impulse  -- by Conrad Aiken; title: The lucky stone  -- by Lucille Clifton; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue  -- by Edgar Allan Poe; title: The night face up  -- by Julio Cortazar; title: The rain came  -- by Grace Ogot; title: Wasps' nest  -- by Agatha Christie; title: The white umbrella  -- by Gish Jen; title: The widow and the parrot : a true story -- by Virginia Woolf.