short story

A study guide designed to help students read and understand four short stories by Herman Melville that includes plot summaries, character sketches, critical essays, and biographical information about Melville.

Presents biographical information on twentieth-century American writer Katherine Anne Porter and profiles four of her best-known short stories, providing plot summaries and excerpts of criticism; also includes primary and secondary bibliographies.

A collection of alphabetically arranged articles that survey the lives and works of 102 authors of short fiction, focusing on writers of the modern short story; each with a list of the author's publications in other genres, and an annotated bibliography.

Contains four reproducible short stories that incorporate lessons in the literary elements of character; setting; symbols, similies, and metaphors; and plot; each with margin notes, suggested activities for before and after reading, and a selection of reproducible activity sheets.

A guide to sixteen short stories, providing an introduction to each story and its author, plot summaries, descriptions of important characters, analysis of important themes, and historical and critical essays. Includes selections by Doris Lessing, Philip Roth, Virginia Woolf, and others.

A guide to seventeen short stories, providing an introduction to each story and its author, plot summaries, descriptions of important characters, analyses of primary themes, explanations of literary techniques and movements, and historical and critical essays.