- Additional Authors
- Derda, Matthew
- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 317 p.) : ill.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Literature resource center
- Uniform Title
- Short stories for students. Volume 37 (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- The drummer boy of Shiloh / Ray Bradbury -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The feather pillow / Horacio Quiroga -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The jay / Yasunari Kawabata -- The long exile / Leo Tolstoy -- New African / Andrea Lee -- Night talkers / Edwidge Danticat -- Oliver's evolution / John Updike -- The possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson -- The princess and the tin box / James Thurber -- The shawl / Louise Erdrich -- Tuesday siesta / Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
- OCLC
- ssj0000968839
- Title
Short stories for students. Volume 37 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories / Matthew Derda, project editor ; foreword by Thomas E. Barden.
- Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2013.
- Series
Literature resource center
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Derda, Matthew.
- Other Form:
Original 9781414487427