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 Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway, The Homecoming Stranger by Bei Dao, Mista Courifer by Adelaide Casely-Hayford, A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin, and A Sunrise on the Veld by Doris Lessing.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

• Authors: Gale
• Assisted by: Thomas E Barden (Editor), Thomas E. Barden (Editor), Sara Constantakis (Editor)
• Publisher: Gale
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2012
• EAN: 9781414487403
• ISBN: 978-1-4144-8740-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1179 g
• Series: Short Stories for Students; Short Stories for Students
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies