Short Stories for Students - Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories

Each volume of Short Stories for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 13-15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each story covered in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this references content. Here are some of the stories you will find in this volume: The Disappearance by Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni, Little Knife by Michael Chabon, A New Leaf by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sentinel by Arthur Clarke, The Storyteller by Saki, and This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie.You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format.Call your Sales Rep for details.PIM31-MAY-1801

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas E Barden (Editor), Thomas E. Barden (Editor), Sara Constantakis (Editor), Gale (Editor)
• Publisher: Gale
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2012
• EAN: 9781414487410
• ISBN: 978-1-4144-8741-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 213 mm x 279 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1066 g
• Series: Short Stories for Students; Short Stories for Students
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies