This volume offers a distillation of the large body of historical and critical information available on Stephen Crane's short stories. -- From preface.
This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
This edition of Stephen Crane’s poignant classic is supplemented by five of his acclaimed short stories as well as selected poetry, offering the full range of this great American author’s extraordinary talent.
This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.
Modern Library editions include new Introductions by well-known contemporary authors, extensive biographical notes, and a reader's guide.
Notable Authors of American Short Stories 81 Lynn, Kenneth S. Mark Twain and the Southwestern Humorists. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. Quirk, Tom. Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1997. Sloane, David E. Mark ...
Presents a collection of contemporary criticism on the works of the nineteenth-century American author.
1994) American short story writer, novelist Born in Trenton, Tennessee, on January 8, 1917, Peter Taylor was a uniquely southern fiction writer who did not spend any of his formative yearsin the South. His family movedto St. Louis when ...
Schaefer, Michael. W. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Stephen Crane. New York: G.K. Hall: 1996. Sorrentino, Paul. Student Companion to Stephen Crane. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. —, ed. Stephen Crane Remembered.
Though little is known about the facts of the trip , Willa Cather provided a dramatized account of her meeting him in February . Well before she would become famous as a novelist , Cather was at the time a student at the University of ...
James Alan McPherson's “Of Cabbages and Kings” is also widely known along with Toni Cade Babara's “The Lesson.” At the end of the twentieth century, the African American story remained a vibrant and vital force in literature.