short story

Presents a brief biography of nineteenth-century American author Sherwood Anderson, and features analyses of five short stories included in the collection "Winesburg, Ohio," each with a plot summary, list of characters, and a selection of critical views. Includes lists of works by and about Anderson.

Presents a comprehensive collection of essays that critically examines a number of short story writers and their works including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and more.

Presents a collection of fifty-two short stories, covering a wide range of international authors and offering insight into the art of short story, including works by Chinua Achebe, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yukio Mishima, Eudora Welty, among others.

A study guide designed to help students read and understand seven short stories by James Joyce that includes plot summaries, critical analysis of each story, character sketches, and biographical information about Joyce.

Surveys the short fiction of American author John Updike, offering a chronological examination of his work, and includes a selection of Updike's commentary on his career as a writer and on the art of fiction, as well as a sampling of Updike criticism.

Discusses the life and literary works of O. Henry.

Many writers address every aspect of writing the short story.

Critical essays discuss the development of the short story.

Presents a collection of approximately eighty stories from around the world for children and adult listeners, each of which can be told in just about three minutes.