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Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.
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Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
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Gale In Context- High School This link opens in a new window Gale In Context: High School offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Explore topics within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more.
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Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction by Charles E. May; Salem Press Staff
Call Number: R 809.31 CR
ISBN: 1587657899
Publication Date: 2011-12-21
An ten volume set that profiles major short-story writers throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual stories or collections; discusses short fiction in overview essays by country, story genre, and historical period; and provides valuable resource material.
Short Stories for Students by Ira Mark Milne (Editor); Thomas E. Barden (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook 809.31
ISBN: 0787670308
Publication Date: 2005-10-28
Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.
Notable American Novelists by Carl Rollyson (Editor); Salem Press Staff
Call Number: R 813.009 NO
ISBN: 9781587653933
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Readings on the Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Hayley M. Haugen (Editor)
Call Number: 813.3 RE
ISBN: 0737706929
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
This book presents twenty-two critical essays on the themes in Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.
Literary Themes for Students by Thomson Gale (Created by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781414404332
Publication Date: 2007-06-29
Critical Survey of Long Fiction by Carl Rollyson; Carl E. Rollyson; Salem Press Staff
Call Number: R 809.3 (eBook)
ISBN: 9781587655357
Publication Date: 2010-01-25
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
American History Through Literature, 1820-1870 by Janet Gabler-Hover; Robert Sattelmeyer
Call Number: R 810.9 AM (eBook)
ISBN: 0684314924
Publication Date: 2005-12-01
American History Through Literature 1820-1870
Kate Chopin by Bernard Koloski
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780805708653
Publication Date: 1996-11-20
Provides an in-depth critical introduction to the short stories of Kate Chopin. Includes a detailed analyses of every significant story, biographical information, a chronology of the artist's life and works, and a representative selection of critical responses.
Feminist in Literature by Janet Witalec; Jessica Bomarito
Call Number: eBook (R 809.89287 FE)
ISBN: 9780787675738
Publication Date: 2004-11-05
Table of Contents
Nathaniel Hawthorne by Jack Lynch (Editor); Salem Press Staff
Call Number: 813.3 NA
ISBN: 9781587656040
Publication Date: 2009-10-10
Examines the individual author's entire body of work and on his/her single works of literature.
Reference Guide to Short Fiction by Thomas Riggs (Contribution by)
Call Number: 809.31 (eBook)
ISBN: 1558622225
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, 1886

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Short Stories

The Literature Network
The Masque of the Red Death
Project Gutenberg
Bloom's Literary Classics (Full Text)
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CrossRoads Project- Edger Allen Poe
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The source of the text varies -- existing ascii texts from Project Gutenberg, The Electronic Text Center at The University of Virginia, the archive at Virginia Tech, and new scans of various sources. In time, all texts will be corrected to The Library of America edition of Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales.
EDGAR ALLAN POE: Tales, Sketches and Selected Criticism