Short stories for students / Milne, Ira Mark

Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Presents profiles of thirteen short stories by writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Saul Bellow, Rudyard Kipling, and others, providing story texts and summaries, author biographies, criticism excerpts, and discussion of theme, style, and historical context.

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.

A guide to fourteen short stories for students, each including an introduction to the story and its author, a plot summary, character profiles, analysis of important themes, an explanation of literary technqiues and movements, and historical and critical essays.

A guide to seventeen classic 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.