Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Short Stories (Volume 8) (Short Stories for Students)

Table of Contents......Page 6 Why Study Literature At All?......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Literary Chronology......Page 14 Acknowledgments......Page 18 Contributors......Page 22 Blackberry Winter......Page 24 Flowering Judas......Page 47 The Garden Party......Page 72 The Grand Inquisitor......Page 92 How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again......Page 120 In Another Country......Page 143 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow......Page 162 The Lifted Veil......Page 188 The Magic Barrel......Page 219 The Man to Send Rain Clouds......Page 240 The Masque of the Red Death......Page 255 Mateo Falcone......Page 284 Mrs. Bathurst......Page 297 A New England Nun......Page 314 Redemption......Page 331 Residents and Transients......Page 346 Silent Snow, Secret Snow......Page 366 Glossary of Literary Terms......Page 384 Cumulative Author/Title Index......Page 396 Nationality/Ethnicity Index......Page 400 Subject/Theme Index......Page 404 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 Each volume of Short Stories for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories studentrs and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.