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9780787636104

Short Stories for Students

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  • ISBN13:

    9780787636104

  • ISBN10:

    078763610X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

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Summary

Each volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.

Table of Contents

Guest Foreword ``Why Study Literature At All?'' vii
Thomas E. Barden
Introduction ix
Literary Chronology xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Contributors xix
Bliss
1(36)
Katherine Mansfield
The Catbird Seat
37(16)
James Thurber
Death in the Woods
53(26)
Sherwood Anderson
Everything That Rises Must Converge
79(31)
Flannery O'Connor
The Fat Girl
110(15)
Andre Dubus
La Grande Breteche
125(22)
Honore de Balzac
The Hitchhiking Game
147(18)
Milan Kundera
Jeeves Takes Charge
165(31)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Lullaby
196(19)
Leslie Marmon Silko
My First Goose
215(23)
Isaac Babel
The News from Ireland
238(19)
William Trevor
Wandering Willie's Tale
257(19)
Sir Walter Scott
The Way We Live Now
276(17)
Susan Sontag
The White Horses of Vienna
293(20)
Kay Boyle
Why I Live at the P.O.
313(34)
Eudora Welty
Glossary of Literary Terms 347(12)
Cumulative Author/Title Index 359(4)
Nationality/Ethnicity Index 363(4)
Subject/Theme Index 367

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