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9780787636098

Short Stories for Students

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  • ISBN13:

    9780787636098

  • ISBN10:

    0787636096

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

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Each volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Short Stories for Students contains concise synopses of the story's plot, characters and themes, along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism.

Table of Contents

Guest Foreword ``Why Study Literature At All?'' vii
Thomas E. Barden
Introduction ix
Literary Chronology xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Contributors xix
The Boarded Window
1(17)
Ambrose Bierce
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
18(36)
Ernest Hemingway
Death in Venice
54(41)
Thomas Mann
The Difference
95(19)
Ellen Glasgow
The Garden of Forking Paths
114(24)
Jorge Luis Borges
Half a Day
138(16)
Naguib Mahfouz
Janus
154(15)
Ann Beattie
The Jolly Corner
169(34)
Henry James
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
203(19)
Richard Wright
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
222(21)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Spinster's Tale
243(19)
Peter Taylor
The Stationmaster
262(25)
Alexander Pushkin
Two Kinds
287(16)
Amy Tan
Victory over Japan
303(15)
Ellen Gilchrist
The Wall
318(35)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Glossary of Literary Terms 353(12)
Cumulative Author/Title Index 365(4)
Nationality/Ethnicity Index 369(4)
Subject/Theme Index 373

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