| Description |
1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. |
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"ISSN 1092-7735." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Vol. 8: Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- How I contemplated the world . . . / Joyce Carol Oates -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The lifted veil / George Eliot -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- The man to send rainclouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Mateo Falcone / Prosper Merimee -- Mrs. Bathurst / Rudyard Kipling -- A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Residents and transients / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Blackberry winter.
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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. Flowering Judas.
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Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Garden party.
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Grand inquisitor.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- How I contemplated the world.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. In another country.
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Lifted veil.
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Malamud, Bernard. Magic barrel.
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Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Man to send rainclouds.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Masque of the red death.
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Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870. Mateo Falcone.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Mrs. Bathurst.
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Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930. New England nun.
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Gardner, John, 1933-1982. Redemption.
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Mason, Bobbie Ann. Residents and transients.
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Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973. Silent snow, secret snow.
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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 story.
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| Added Author |
Milne, Ira Mark, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Short stories for students, Volume 8. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 2000 9780787636081 |
| ISBN |
9781414428192 (electronic book) |
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1414428197 (electronic book) |
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9780787636081 |
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0787636088 |
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