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Short stories for students

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An edition of Short Stories for Students (2010)

Short stories for students

presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories

by , , , , , , , , , , and

  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

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.

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Gale
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English
Pages
344

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Literature, Stories, plots, Short story, History and criticism, Bio-bibliography, Short stories, American Short stories, Study and teaching (Secondary), Study and teaching (Higher), Heart of darkness (Conrad, Joseph), What we talk about when we talk about love (Carver, Raymond), Verwandlung (Kafka, Franz), Goodbye, Columbus (Roth, Philip), Snows of Kilimanjaro (Hemingway, Ernest), Tod in Venedig (Mann, Thomas), Odin den£ Ivana Denisovicha (SolzhenitŁsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich), Jardin de senderos que se bifurcan (Borges, Jorge Luis), Boarded window (Bierce, Ambrose), To build a fire (London, Jack), Man that corrupted Hadleyburg (Twain, Mark), Canterville ghost (Wilde, Oscar), Cask of Amontillado (Poe, Edgar Allan), Shinel£ (Gogol£, Nikolai Vasil£evich), Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving, Washington), Mateo Falcone (Merimee, Prosper), Brat£iŁa Karamazovy (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor), Masque of the red death (Poe, Edgar Allan), Magic barrel (Malamud, Bernard), C¿ur simple (Flaubert, Gustave), Dead (Joyce, James), Beast in the jungle (James, Henry), Rose for Emily (Faulkner, William), Short stories (Carver, Raymond), Bibliography, Everything that rises must converge (O'Connor, Flannery), Grande Breteche (Balzac, Honore de), Bliss (Mansfield, Katherine), Things they carried (O'Brien, Tim), Smert£ Ivana Il£icha (Tolstoy, Leo, graf), Rikki-tikki-tavi (Kipling, Rudyard), Boule de Suif (Maupassant, Guy de), Brokeback Mountain (Proulx, Annie), Pearl (Steinbeck, John), Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe, Edgar Allan)

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Luisa Valenzuela (1938-), Jane Yolen, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-), Jack Finney, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Alan Paton, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Tim O'Brien (1946-), Langston Hughes (1902-1967), V. S. Naipaul (1932-), Hamsad Rangkuti (1943-), Anne Tyler, Anita Desai (1937-), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Walter Dean Myers (1937-), Yoshiko Uchida, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), O. Henry (1862-1910), Julia Alvarez, Stephen Vincent Bene t (1898-1943), Italo Calvino, Julio Corta zar, Nadine Gordimer, Agatha Christie (1890-1976), Jean Stafford (1915-1979), Alice Adams (1926-1999), Gabriel García Márquez (1928-), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Harlan Ellison, Toni Cade Bambara, Peter Ho Davies (1966-), Mark Twain (1835-1910), Akhil Sharma (1971-), Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), Zora Neale Hurston, Woody Allen (1935-), Elizabeth McCracken, Aimee Bender, Peter Baida, Don Lee (1959-), ZZ Packer, Padgett Powell, James Salter, Mark Helprin, Anthony Doerr (1973-), Marisa Silver, Joy Williams (1944-), Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), Edwidge Danticat (1969-), Jie Zhang (1937-), Stephen King (1947-), Eugenia W. Collier, Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Louise Erdrich, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), W. P. Kinsella, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Bessie Head (1937-1986), Chinua Achebe, Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami (1949-), Mary Swan (1953-), Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), Mary Lavin (1912-1996), Heidi Julavits, Julie Orringer, Carolyn Ferrell, Stuart Dybek (1942-), James Alan McPherson (1943-2016), Jose Saramago, James Hurst, Thom Jones, Raymond Carver (1938-1988), Annie Proulx, Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943), Simon J. Ortiz (1941-), Samrat Upadhyay, Lars Gustafsson (1936-), Saul Bellow, John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Mary Yukari Waters, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Aleksandar Hemon (1964-), Robert Olen Butler, Cynthia Ozick

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Table of Contents

Amigo brothers -- by Piri Thomas
The bass, the river, and Sheila Mant -- by W.D. Wetherell
Day of the butterfly -- by Alice Munro
Federigo's falcon -- by Giovanni Boccaccio
The first year of my life -- by Muriel Spark
Games at twilight -- by Anita Desai
The golden kite, the silver wind -- by Ray Bradbury
House taken over -- by Julio Cortazar
How much land does a man need? -- by Leo Tolstoy
Marigolds -- by Eugenia W. Collier
The medicine bag -- by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
A mystery of heroism -- by Stephen Crane
Once upon a time -- by Nadine Gordimer
Two friends -- by Guy de Maupassant.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

Published in
Detroit, Mich
Series
Gale virtual reference library

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.83/1
Library of Congress
PN3373 .S3845 2010eb

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Pagination
1 online resource (xix, 344 pages)
Number of pages
344

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OL32356772M
Internet Archive
shortstoriesfors0028unse
ISBN 10
1414449593, 1414421869
ISBN 13
9781414449593, 9781414421865
OCLC/WorldCat
648196147

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