short story

Profiles fourteen commonly studied short stories by such authors as Isak Dinesen, Ann Beattie, and Bobbie Ann Mason, providing plot summaries, author biographies, analysis, historical context, and criticism for each, as well as research ideas and lists of media adaptations.

Profiles fourteen commonly studied short stories by such authors as Flannery O'Connor, Jane Smiley, and Zora Neale Hurston, providing plot summaries, author biographies, analysis, historical context, and criticism for each, as well as research ideas and lists of media adaptations.

Profiles fourteen commonly studied short stories by such authors as Annie Proulx, Katherine Anne Porter, and Raymond Carver, providing plot summaries, author biographies, analysis, historical context, and criticism for each, as well as research ideas and lists of media adaptations.

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Profiles fifteen commonly studied short stories by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, and Kate Chopin, providing plot summaries, author biographies, analysis, historical context, and criticism for each, as well as research ideas and lists of media adaptations.

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Contains entries that provide information about fourteen short stories, covering the plot, characters, themes, style, and historical context of each story, with an author biography, critical overview, selection of criticism, list of sources, and suggestions for further reading. Includes works by Roald Dahl, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, and others.

Contains entries that provide information about fourteen short stories, covering the plot, characters, themes, style, and historical context of each story, with an author biography, critical overview, selection of criticism, list of sources, and suggestions for further reading. Includes works by Piri Thomas, Alice Munro, Muriel Spark, and others.

Contains entries that provide information about fourteen short stories, covering the plot, characters, themes, style, and historical context of each story, with an author biography, critical overview, selection of criticism, list of sources, and suggestions for further reading. Includes works by O. Henry, Shirley Jackson, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, and others.

Presents significant passages from criticism of the works of eight well-known short story writers, and features supplementary biographical and bibliographical information. Includes a portrait of each author, as well as cumulative author, nationality, and title indexes.