- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 314 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.
- Series Statement
- Literature resource center
- Uniform Title
- Short stories for students. Volume 39 (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Barbie-Q / by Sandra Cisneros -- The beginning of something / by Sue Ellen Bridgers -- Christmas Day in the morning / by Pearl S. Buck -- A cup of tea / by Katherine Mansfield -- The infant prodigy / by Thomas Mann -- The lagoon / by Joseph Conrad -- The new-year sacrifice / by Lu Xun -- One throw / by W.C. Heinz -- The piece of string / by Guy de Maupassant -- A prayer from the living / by Ben Okri -- Teenage wasteland / by Anne Tyler -- The third bank of the river / by Joao Guimaraes Rosa -- The war of the wall / by Toni Cade Bambara -- The winner / by Barbara Kimenye.
- OCLC
- ssj0001256000
- Title
Short stories for students. Volume 39 [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories / Matthew Derda, project editor ; foreword by Thomas E. Barden.
- Imprint
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.
- Series
Literature resource center
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Derda, Matthew.
Gale Group.
- Other Form:
Print version: Short stories for students, Volume 39. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014 9781414495262