| Description |
xix, 333 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. |
| Contents |
Araby / James Joyce -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Children of the sea / Edwidge Danticat -- Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving -- Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- King of the Bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Open window / Saki -- Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Short, happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
| Subject |
Short story -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Short story -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
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Short stories -- 20th century.
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Short stories, American -- 20th century.
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01117043
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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Short story -- Study and teaching (Higher)
(OCoLC)fst01117451
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Short story -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
(OCoLC)fst01117453
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Added Author |
Wilson, Kathleen.
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| ISBN |
0787616907 |
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9780787616908 |
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