- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 337 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
- Gale virtual reference library
- Uniform Title
- Short stories for students. Volume 42 (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
- The age of lead / Margaret Atwood -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- The distant stars / Le Minh Khue -- Drenched in light / Zora Neale Hurston -- The enormous radio / John Cheever -- Eve's diary / Mark Twain -- The landlady / Roald Dahl -- The machine stops / E. M. Forster -- The mortal immortal / Mary Shelley -- The particles / Andrea Barrett -- The princess of Nebraska / Yiyun Li -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood.
- OCLC
- ssj0001587931
- Title
Short stories for students. Volume 42 [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, [2015]
- Series
Gale virtual reference library
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Derda, Matthew.
Gale Group.
- Other Form:
Print version: Short stories for students, Volume 42. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, Cengage Learning, [2015] 9781410315915