Title: Short stories for students
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.
Subjects: Short story, Study and teaching (Higher), Study and teaching (Secondary), Black cat (Poe, Edgar Allan), Ruinas circulares (Borges, Jorge Luis)
Places: United States
People: A. S. Byatt (1936-), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), William Gibson (1948-), Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910), Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Eudora Welty (1909-2001), Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Kate Chopin (1850-1904)