Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly
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Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Fall 2007 SHORT STORIES FOR STUDENTS Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories Author Each entry, or chapter, focuses on one short story. The following elements are contained in each entry: Introduction, Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical and Cultural Context, Critical Overview, Sources, For Further Study, Criticism, Media Adaptations, Compare and Contrast Box, What Do I Read Next?, and Study Questions. Each volume is indexed by author, title, nationality/ethnicity, subject, and theme and includes a glossary of literary terms. Title Vol Art Work Black Cat, The Circular Ruins, The Goophered Grapevine, The Gusev Johnny Mnemonic Life in the Iron Mills Mild Attack of Locusts, A Moon Lake Old Woman Magoun Soldier's Home Storm, The This Blessed House Use of Force, The 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 Title list in production and subject to change 2/11/08 Byatt Poe Borges Chesnutt Chekhov Gibson Davis Lessing Welty Freeman Hemingway Chopin Lahriri Williams A(ntonia) S(usan) Edgar Alan Jorge Luis Charles Anton William Rebecca Harding Doris Eudora Mary E(leanor) Wilkins Ernest Kate Jhumpa William Carlos Most recent published volume Packer Z. Z. Brownies 25 Danticat Edwidge Caroline's Wedding 25 Fitzgerald F. Scott Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The 25 Highsmith Patricia Girl Like Phyl, A 25 Williams Joy Girls, The 25 McCracken Elizabeth Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry 25 Salter James Last Night 25 Baida Peter Nurse's Story, A 25 Helprin Mark Nurse's Story, A 25 Lee Don Price of Eggs in China, The 25 Bender Aimee Rememberer, The 25 Doerr Anthony Shell Collector, The 25 Powell Padgett Trick or Treat 25 Silver Marisa What I Saw From Where I Stood 25 ALL PUBLISHED or TYPESET VOLUMES Joyce James Twain Mark Danticat Edwidge Araby Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County Children of the Sea Page 1 of 12 1 1 1 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Title Fall 2007 Vol Irving Washington Devil and Tom Walker 1 Hurston Zora Neale Eatonville Anthology 1 Garcia Marquez Gabriel 1 Olsen Tillie Handsomest Drowned Man in the World I Stand Here Ironing 1 Porter Katherine Anne Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1 Ellison Ralph King of the Bingo Game 1 Jackson Shirley Lottery 1 Connell Richard Most Dangerous Game 1 Open Window 1 Saki Thurber James Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1 Conrad Joseph Secret Sharer 1 Hemingway Ernest 1 Bradbury Ray Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber There Will Come Soft Rains 1 Lessing Doris Through the Tunnel 1 Oates Joyce Carol 1 Gilman Charlotte Perkins Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Yellow Wallpaper 1 Hawthorne Nathaniel Young Goodman Brown 1 Faulkner William Bear 2 Capote Truman Christmas Memory 2 Walker Alice Everyday Use 2 Poe Edgar Allan Fall of the House of Usher 2 Henry O. Gift of the Magi 2 Singer Isaac Bashevis Gimpel the Fool 2 O'Connor Flannery Good Man Is Hard to Find 2 Hempel Amy 2 Mansfield Katherine In the Cemetary Where Al Jolson Is Buried Miss Brill 2 Jacobs W(illiam) W(ymark) Monkey's Paw 2 Bierce Ambrose Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 2 Le Guin Ursula K(roeber) Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 2 Cather Willa Paul's Case 2 Doyle Arthur Conan Red-Headed League 2 Lawrence D. H. Rocking Horse Winner 2 Baldwin James Sonny's Blues 2 Chopin Kate Story of an Hour 2 Cheever John Swimmer 2 Gordimer Nadine Train from Rhodesia 2 Welty Eudora Worn Path 2 Updike John A&P 3 Page 2 of 12 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Title Fall 2007 Vol Cortazar Julio Axolotl 3 Melville Herman Bartleby, Scrivener 3 Paley Grace Conversation with My Father 3 Wells H.G. Door in the Wall 3 Steinbeck John Flight 3 Kafka Franz In the Penal Colony 3 Galsworthy John Japanese Quince 3 Glaspell Susan Jury of Her Peers 3 Stockton Frank R. Lady or the Tiger 3 Wright Richard (Nathaniel) Man Who Lived Underground 3 Kingston Maxine Hong On Discovery 3 Harte Bret Outcasts of Poker Flat 3 Atwood Margaret Rape Fantasies 3 Barthelme Donald Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning 3 Ozick Cynthia Shawl 3 Mason Bobbie Ann Shiloh 3 Dinesen Isak Sorrow-Acre 3 Achebe Chinua Vengeful Creditor 3 Carver Raymond Where I'm Calling From 3 Cisneros Sandra Woman Hollering Creek 3 Fitzgerald F. Scott Babylon Revisited 4 Carter Angela Bloody Chamber 4 Bambara Toni Cade Blues Ain't No Mockingbird 4 Mann Thomas Disorder and Early Sorrow 4 Camus Albert Guest 4 Wolff Tobias 4 Dahl Roald In the Garden of the North American Martyrs Lamb to the Slaughter 4 Mrs. Spring Fragrance 4 Sui Sin Far de Maupassant Guy Necklace 4 Woolf (Adeline) Virginia New Dress 4 Crane Stephen Open Boat 4 Borges Jorge Luis Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 4 Freeman Mary E(leanor) Wilkins Revolt of Mother 4 Orwell George Shooting an Elephant 4 Hughes Langston Slave on the Block 4 Anderson Sherwood Sophistication 4 Phillips Jayne Anne Souvenir 4 Clarke Arthur C. Star 4 Poe Edgar Allan Tell-Tale Heart 4 Jewett Sarah Orne White Heron 4 Silko Leslie Marmon Yellow Woman Page 3 of 12 4 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Title Fall 2007 Vol Faulkner William Barn Burning 5 Parker Dorothy Big Blonde 5 Toomer Jean Blood-Burning Moon 5 Munro Alice Boys and Girls 5 Tolstoy Leo Death of Ivan Ilych 5 Bowen Elizabeth Demon Lover 5 O'Connor Frank Guests of the Nation 5 Naoya Shiga Han's Crime 5 Vonnegut Kurt Harrison Bergeron 5 Narayan R.K. Horse and Two Goats 5 Chekhov Anton Lady with the Pet Dog 5 Stein Gertrude Melanctha 5 Morrison Toni Recitatif 5 Gaines Ernest J(ames) Sky Is Gray 5 Head Bessie Snapshots of a Wedding 5 Mishima Yukio Swadding Clothes 5 O'Brien Tim Things They Carried 5 O'Flaherty Liam Wave 5 Kincaid Jamaica What Have I Been Doing Lately 5 McCullers Carson Wunderkind 5 James Henry Beast in the Jungle 6 Butler Octavia Bloodchild 6 Carver Raymond Cathedral 6 Steinbeck John Chrysanthemums 6 Joyce James Dead 6 Wideman John Edgar Fever 6 Nabokov Vladmir Guide to Berlin 6 Hemingway Ernest Hills Like White Elephants 6 Barth John Lost in the Funhouse 6 Lawrence D. H. Odor of Chrysanthemums 6 Wharton Edith Pomegranate Seed 6 Dinesen Isak Ring 6 Faulkner William Rose for Emily 6 Flaubert Gustave Simple Heart 6 Hurston Zora Neale Spunk 6 Mistry rohinton Swimming Lessons 6 Garcia Marquez Gabriel Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 6 Hughes Langston Blues I'm Playing 7 Wilde Oscar Canterville Ghost 7 Poe Edgar Allan Cask of Amontillado Page 4 of 12 7 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Title Fall 2007 Vol Bates H. E. Daffodil Sky 7 Kincaid Jamaica Girl 7 Kafka Franz Hunger Artist 7 O'Connor Flannery Life You Save May Be Your Own 7 Twain Mark Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 7 Mukherjee Bharati Management of Grief 7 Hawthorne Nathaniel Minister's Black Veil 7 Cather Willa Neighbor Rosicky 7 Gogol Nikolai Overcoat 7 Bambara Toni Cade Raymond's Run 7 Wharton Edith Roman Fever 7 Berriault Gina Stone Boy 7 London Jack To Build a Fire 7 Heinlein Robert Waldo 7 Warren Robert Penn Blackberry Winter 8 Porter Katherine Anne Flowering Judas 8 Mansfield Katherine Garden Party 8 Dostoevski Fedor Grand Inquisitor 8 Oates Joyce Carol How I Contemplated the World 8 Hemingway Ernest In Another Country 8 Irving Washington Legend of Sleepy Hollow 8 Eliot George Lifted Veil 8 Malamud Bernard Magic Barrel 8 Silko Leslie Marmon Man to Send Rainclouds 8 Poe Edgar Allan Masque of the Red Death 8 Merimee Prosper Mateo Falcone 8 Kipling Rudyard Mrs. Bathurst 8 Freeman Mary E(leanor) Wilkins New England Nun 8 Gardner John Redemption 8 Mason Bobbie Ann Residents and Transients 8 Aiken Conrad Silent Snow, Secret Snow 8 Bierce Ambrose Boarded Window, The 9 Hemingway Ernest Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A 9 Mann Thomas Death in Venice 9 Glasgow Ellen Difference, The 9 Borges Jorge Luis Garden of Forking Paths, The 9 Mahfouz Naguib Half a Day 9 Beattie Ann Janus 9 James Henry Jolly Corner, The 9 Wright Richard (Nathaniel) Man Who Was Almost a Man, The 9 Solzhenitsyn Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Page 5 of 12 9 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Title Fall 2007 Vol Taylor Peter (Hillsman) Spinster's Tale, A 9 Pushkin Alexander Stationmaster, The 9 Tan Amy Two Kinds 9 Gilchrist Ellen Victory over Japan 9 Sartre Jean-Paul Wall, The 9 Mansfield Katherine Bliss 10 Thurber James Catbird Seat 10 Anderson Sherwood Death in the Woods 10 O'Connor Flannery Everything That Rises Must Converge 10 Dubus Andre Fat Girl 10 Balzac Honore de Grande Breteche 10 Kundera Milan Hitchhiking Game 10 Wodehouse P.G. Jeeves Takes Charge 10 Silko Leslie Marmon Lullaby 10 Babel Isaac My First Goose 10 Trevor William News from Ireland 10 Scott Walter Wandering Willie's Tale 10 Sontag Susan Way We Live Now 10 Boyle Kay White Horses of Vienna, The 10 Welty Eudora Why I Live at the P.O. 10 Allende Isabel And of Clay Are We Created 11 Ellison Ralph Battle Royal 11 Hurston Zora Neale Gilded Six-Bits 11 Butler Robert Olen Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 11 Porter Katherine Anne Grave 11 Anderson Sherwood Hands 11 Mansfield Katherine Marriage a la Mode 11 Mphahlele Es'kia Mrs. Plum 11 Hawthorne Nathaniel My Kinsman, Major Molineux 11 Walker Alice Roselily 11 Wolff Tobias Say Yes 11 Chesnutt Charles Sheriff's Children 11 Bloom Amy Silver Water 11 Hemingway Ernest Snows of Kilimanjaro 11 Silko Leslie Marmon Storyteller 11 Berriault Gina Women in Their Beds 11 Wideman John Edgar Beginning of Homewood 12 Lessing Doris Debbie and Julie 12 Carter Angela Erl-King 12 Calvino Italo Feathered Ogre Page 6 of 12 12 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Fall 2007 Title Vol Mishima Yukio Fountains in the Rain 12 Roth Philip Goodbye, Columbus 12 Conrad Joseph Heart of Darkness 12 Woolf (Adeline) Virginia Kew Gardens 12 Bellow Saul Leaving the Yellow House 12 Bambara Toni Cade Lesson 12 Kafka Franz Metamorphosis 12 Ozick Cynthia Pagan Rabbi 12 Singer Isaac Bashevis Spinoza of Market Street 12 Sayers Dorothy Suspicion 12 Faulkner William That Evening Sun 12 Carver Raymond What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 12 Boyle Kay Astronomer's Wife 13 Achebe Chinua Civil Peace 13 Chekhov Anton Darling 13 Chopin Kate Desiree's Baby 13 Agueros Jack Dominoes 13 Carver Raymond Errand 13 Malamud Bernard First Seven Years 13 Atwood Margaret Happy Endings 13 Ellison Harlan Jeffty Is Five 13 Head Bessie Life 13 Cisneros Sandra Little Miracles, Kept Promises 13 Paz Octavio My Life with the Wave 13 Dinesen Isak Sailor-Boy's Tale 13 Boyle T. C. 13 Borowski Tadeusz Munro Alice Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail This Way To the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Walker Brothers Cowboy 13 Brown Jason Animal Stories 14 Boyle Kay Black Boy 14 Ellison Harlan Boy and His Dog 14 Vargas Llosa Mario Challenge, The 14 Cheever John Country Husband, The 14 Greene Graham Destructors 14 du Maurier Daphne Don't Look Now 14 Yamamoto Hisaye Eskimo Connection 14 Wolf Christa Exchanging Glances 14 Chekhov Anton Gooseberries, The 14 Adams Alice Last Lovely City Page 7 of 12 13 14 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Fall 2007 Title Vol Tolstaya Tatyana Night 14 Erdrich Louise Red Convertible 14 Saroyan William Resurrection of a Life 14 Hendel Yehudit Small Change 14 Gordimer Nadine Town and Country Lovers 14 Rivera Beatriz African Passions 15 Yezierska Anzia America and I 15 Wright Richard (Nathaniel) Bright and Morning Star 15 Beckett Samuel (Barclay) Dante and the Lobster 15 Manto Sadat Hasan Dog of Tithwal 15 Ogot Grace Green Leave, The 15 Rivera Tomas Harvest, The 15 O'Brien (William) Tim(othy) How To Tell A True War Story 15 Ellison Harlan (Jay) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 15 Munro H(ector) H(ugh) Interlopers, The 15 Robbe-Grillet Alain Replacement, The 15 Nabokov Vladimir (Vladimirovich) That In Aleppo Once... 15 Marshall Paule To Da-Duh in Memoriam 15 Fitzgerald F(rancis) Scott (Key) Winter Dreams 15 Hawthorne Nathaniel Wives of the Dead 15 du Maurier Daphne Birds, The 16 Malamud Bernard Black Is My Favorite Color 16 Chandra Vikram Dharma (Art of the Short Story) 16 Cather Willa Sibert Diamond Mine, The 16 Allende Isabel Gold of Tomas Vargas, The 16 Porter Katherine Anne He 16 Singer Isaac Bashevis Henne Fire 16 Clemens Samuel Langhorne Invalid's Story, The 16 Yoshimoto Mahoko Kitchen 16 Johnson Charles (Richard) Menagerie, A Child's Fable 16 Poe Edgar Allan Purloined Letter 16 Irving Washington Rip Van Winkle 16 Tan Amy (Ruth) Rules of the Game 16 Garcia Marquez Gabriel (Jose) Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock, The 16 Borges Jorge Luis Aleph, The 17 Tyler Anne 17 Houston Pam Average Waves in Unprotected Waters Best Girlfriend You Never Had, The 17 El-Bisatie Mohamed Conversation from the Third Floor, A 17 Bowles Paul (Frederick) Eye Page 8 of 12 17 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Fall 2007 Title Vol Maugham W(illiam) Somerset Fall of Edward Barnard, The 17 Oates Joyce Carol Four Summers 17 Jin Xuefei In the Kindergarten 17 Barthelme Donald Indian Uprising 17 Hemingway Ernest (Miller) Killers, The 17 Reed Wetzel Marlene Map of Tripoli, 1967, A 17 Devlin Anne Naming the Names 17 Asimov Isaac Nightfall 17 Salinger J(erome) D(avid) Perfect Day for Bananafish, A 17 Chopin Katherine Point At Issue, A 17 Kohler Sheila (May) Africans 18 Alexie Sherman (Joseph) (Jr.) 18 Friedman Bruce Jay Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock Brazzaville Teen-ager 18 Roth Philip (Milton) Conversion of the Jews 18 Wolfe Thomas (Clayton) Far and Near 18 Proulx E(dna) Annie Half-Skinned Steer, The 18 Clarke Arthur C(harles) If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth… 18 Hoeg Peter Journey Into A Dark Heart 18 Lagerlof Selma Legend of the Christmas Rose, The 18 Porter William Sydney Mammon and the Archer 18 Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter 18 Baldwin James (Arthur) Rockpile, The 18 Gilman Three Thanksgivings 18 Bisson Charlotte (Anna) Perkins (Stetson) Terry (Ballantine) 18 Edwards Kim Toxic Doughnut, The (Bears Discover Fire) Way It Felt to Be Falling, The 18 Callaghan Morley All the Years of Her Life 19 O'Connor Flannery Circle in the Fire, A 19 Morales Alejandro Curing Woman, The 19 Joyce James Eveline 19 Santos Bienvenido Immigration Blues 19 Smiley Jane Long Distance 19 Munro Alice Meneseteung 19 Thurber James Night the Ghost Got In, The 19 Updike John Slump, The 19 Hurston Zora Neale Sweat 19 Lahiri Jhumpa Temporary Matter, A 19 Gordimer Nadine Ultimate Safari, The 19 Page 9 of 12 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Fall 2007 Title Vol Boyle T. Coraghessan Underground Gardens, The 19 Moore Lorrie Yourre Ugly, Too 19 Dinesen Isak Babette's Feast 20 Wright Richard Big Black Good Man 20 Boll Heinrich Christmas Not Just Once a Year 20 Sargeson Frank Great Day, A 20 Beattie Ann Imagined Scenes 20 Okri Ben In the Shadow of War 20 Paley Grace Long-Distance Runner, The 20 Mason Bobbie Ann Private Lies 20 Cortazar Julio Pursuer, The 20 Unamuno Miguel de Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr 20 O'Flaherty Liam Sniper, The 20 Diaz Junot Sun, the Moon, the Stars, The 20 Lessing Doris To Room Nineteen 20 Bradbury Ray Veldt, The 20 Burton Sir Richard Arabian Nights, The 21 Maupassant Guy de Boule de Suif 21 Hurston Zora Neale Conscience of the Court 21 Fitzgerald F. Scott Crazy Sunday 21 Garcia Marquez Gabriel Eyes of a Blue Dog 21 Bambara Toni Cade Gorilla, My Love 21 Adams Alice Greyhound People 21 Sharma Akhil If You Sing like That for Me 21 Stafford Jean In the Zoo 21 Allen Woody Kugelmass Episode, The 21 Twain Mark No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger 21 Ellison Harlan 21 Kipling Rudyard ''Repent, Harlequin!'' Said the Ticktockman Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 21 Davies Peter Ho Think of England 21 Waters Mary Yukari Aftermath 22 Bowen Elizabeth Day in the Dark, A 22 Ortiz Simon J. End of Old Horse, The 22 Benet Stephen Vincent End to Dreams, An 22 Erdrich Louise Fleur 22 Upadhyay Samrat Good Shopkeeper, The 22 Gustafsson Lars Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases 22 Hemon Aleksandar Islands 22 Kipling Rudyard Mowgli's Brothers Page 10 of 12 22 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Author Fall 2007 Title Vol Steinbeck John Pearl, The 22 Ozick Cynthia Rosa 22 Bellow Saul Silver Dish, A 22 Butler Robert Olen Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle 22 Proulx Annie Brokeback Mountain 23 Saramago Jose Centaur, The 23 Swan Mary Deep, The 23 McPherson James Alan Elbow Room 23 Murakami Haruki Elephant Vanishes, The 23 Porter Katherine Anne Holiday 23 Dybek Stuart Hot Ice 23 Lavin Mary In the Middle of the Fields 23 Julavits Heidi Marry the One Who Gets There First 23 Ferrell Carolyn Proper Library 23 Jones Thom Pugilist at Rest, The 23 Hurst James Scarlet Ibis, The 23 Carver Raymond Small, Good Thing, A 23 Orringer Julie Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones, The 23 Yates Barrett McCorkle Haslett Malouf Li Leffland Divakaruni Barnes Mukherjee Ochsner Walbert Eisenberg Wideman Richard Andrea Jill Adam David Yiyun Ella Chitra Banerjee Julian Bharati Gina Kate Deborah John Edgar Canal, The English Pupil, The Fish Good Doctor, The Great Day Immortality Last Courtesies Meeting Mrinal Melon Middleman, The Necessary Grace to Fall, The Paris 1991 Someone to Talk To What We Cannot Speak About We Must 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 Packer Z. Z. Brownies 25 Danticat Edwidge Caroline's Wedding 25 Fitzgerald F. Scott Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The 25 Highsmith Patricia Girl Like Phyl, A 25 Williams Joy Girls, The 25 McCracken Elizabeth Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry 25 Salter James Last Night 25 Baida Peter Nurse's Story, A 25 Helprin Mark Perfection 25 Lee Don Price of Eggs in China, The Page 11 of 12 25 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Author Short Stories For Students Volumes 1-26 Fall 2007 Title Vol Bender Aimee Rememberer, The 25 Doerr Anthony Shell Collector, The 25 Powell Padgett Trick or Treat 25 Silver Marisa What I Saw From Where I Stood 25 Page 12 of 12
