TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akers,Tim
AU  - Moore,Jerry
TI  - Short stories for students: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories 
SN  - 0787622206
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Detroit
PB  - Gale Group
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Short stories
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Short story
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Study and teaching (Secondary)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Han's crime / Shiga Naoya -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut -- A horse and two goats / R. K. Narayan -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Melanctha / Gertrude Stein -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- Snapshots of a wedding / Bessie Head -- Swaddling clothes / Yukio Mishima -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- What I have been doing lately / Jamaica Kincaid -- The wave / Liam O'Flaherty -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers
N2  - Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism
ER  -