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Short Stories

Author / Title / Online Text
Jackson, Shirley / The Lottery / No online text
Chopin, Kate / Regret / Online Text
Chopin, Kate / Desiree’s Baby / Online text
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins / The Yellow Wallpaper / Online Text
Rowlandson, Mary / Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson / Online Text
Melville, Herman / Bartleby the Scrivener / Online Text
Melville, Herman / Benito Cereno / Online Text
Crane, Stephen / The Open Boat / Online Text
Saroyan, William / The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze / Online Text
Steinbeck, John / The Chrysanthemums / Online Text
Walker, Alice / Everyday Use / No online text
Walker, Alice / To Hell with Dying / No online text
Walker, Alice / Roselily / No online text
Updike, John / A & P / Online Text
Twain, Mark / The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County / Online Text
Twain, Mark / The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg / Online Text
Poe, Edgar Allan / All Stories and Poems / Online Text

Shirley Jackson

1.  Cleveland, Carol. "Shirley Jackson." And Then There Were Nine ... More Women of Mystery. Ed. Jane S. Bakerman Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985. 199-219. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

2.  GRIFFIN, AMY A. "Jackson's THE LOTTERY." The Explicator. (Vol. 58). .1 (Fall 1999): p44. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

3.  Hicks, Jennifer. "Overview of 'The Lottery'." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

4.  Hrebik, Dale. "Shirley Jackson." American Short-Story Writers Since World War II: Third Series. Ed. Patrick Meanor and Richard E. Lee. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 234. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

5.  Meyers, Diana Tietjens. "The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck." Signs. (Vol. 24). .1 (Autumn 1998): p273. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

6.  Nebeker, Helen E. "'The Lottery': Symbolic Tour de Force." American Literature. 46.1 (Mar. 1974): 100-107. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Christopher Giroux and Brigham Narins. Vol. 87. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

7.  Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in 'The Lottery'." Essays in Literature. 15.2 (Fall 1988): 259-265. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

8.  Schaub, Danielle. "Shirley Jackson's Use of Symbols in 'The Lottery.'." Journal of the Short Story in English. 14 (Spring 1990): 79-86. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 187. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

9.  Wagner-Martin, Linda. "The Lottery: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

Kate Chopin

  1. Erickson, Jon. "Fairytale Features in Kate Chopin's 'Désirée's Baby,'." Modes of Narrative: Approaches to American, Canadian and British Fiction. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik and Barbara Korte Konigshausen & Neumann, 1990. 57-64. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

2.  Foy, Roslyn Reso. "Chopin's 'Désirée's Baby'." The Explicator. 49.4 (Summer 1991): 222-223. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

3.  Inge, Tonette Bond and William E. Grant. "Katherine Chopin." American Short-Story Writers, 1880-1910. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 78. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

  1. Korb, Rena. "Critical Essay on "Désirée's Baby"." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  2. McCullough, Kate. "Kate Chopin and (Stretching) the Limits of Local Color Fiction." Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999. 185-226. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 127. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  3. Miner, Madonne M. "Désirée's Baby: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  4. Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin and Literary Convention: 'Désirée's Baby,'." in Southern Studies. 20.2 (Summer 1981): 201-208. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  5. Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin's New Orleans Years." New Orleans Review. 15.1 (Spring 1988): 53-60. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  6. Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Kate Chopin and the fiction of limits: "Desiree's Baby"." The Southern Literary Journal. (Vol. 10). .2 (Spring 1978): p123. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1.  Feldstein, Richard. "Reader, Text, and Ambiguous Referentiality in 'The Yellow Wall-Paper.'." The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper". Ed. Catherine Golden. New York: Feminist Press, 1992. 307-318. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.

2.  Purinton, Marjean D. "Reading Marital Relationships: The Wallpaper in A Room of One's Own." The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper,". Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 94-111. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 139. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center.

3.  Knight, Denise D. "'I am getting angry enough to do something desperate': The Question of

Female 'Madness.'." "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition. Ed. Shawn St. Jean. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. 73-87. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.

4.  Montgomerie, Anne. "'The Yellow Wall Paper.'." Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition. Ed. Catherine J. New York: Routledge, 2004. 82. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.

5.  Hume, Beverly A. "Managing Madness in Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper.'." Studies in American Fiction 30.1 (Spring 2002): 3-20. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Vol. 228. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center.

6.  Newberry, Frederick. "Male Doctors and Female Illness in American Women's Fiction, 1850-1900." Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. Monika M. Elbert. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. 143-157. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Marie C. Toft and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 139. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center.

7.  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?" Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition. Ed. Catherine J. Golden. New York: Routledge, 2004. 45-47. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.

8.  Hume, Beverly A. "Managing madness in Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'." Studies in American Fiction 30.1 (2002): 3+. Literature Resource Center.

Mary Rowlandson

  1. Boswell, Parley Ann. "Mary White Rowlandson Remembers Captivity: A Mother's Anguish, a Woman's Voice." Women's Life-Writing: Finding Voice/Building Community. Ed. Linda S. Coleman. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997. 109-118. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 66. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center.

2.  Lang, Amy Schrager. "Mary Rowlandson." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford, Angela Vietto, and Amy E. Winans. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 200. Literature Resource Center.

  1. Neuwirth, Steven. "Her Master's Voice: Gender, Speech, and Gendered Speech in the Narrative of the Captivity of Mary White Rowlandson." Sex and Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Merril D. Smith. New York University Press, 1998. 55-86. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 66. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center.

4.  Newman, Andrew. "Captive on the literacy frontier: Mary Rowlandson, James Smith, and Charles Johnson." Early American Literature 38.1 (2003): 31+. Literature Resource Center.

5.  VanDerBeets, Richard. "Mary Rowlandson." American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734. Ed. Emory Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 24. Literature Resource Center.

6.  Wesley, Marilyn C. "Moving targets: the travel text in 'A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.'." Essays in Literature 23.1 (1996): 42+. Literature Resource Center.

Herman Melville

1.  Coviello, Peter. "The American in charity: "Benito Cereno" and gothic anti-sentimentality." Studies in American Fiction. (Vol. 30). .2 (Autumn 2002): p155. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

2.  Davis, Todd F. "The Narrator's Dilemma in "Bartleby the Scrivener": The Excellently Illustrated Re-statement of a Problem." Studies in Short Fiction. (Vol. 34). .2 (Spring 1997): p183. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

3.  Elliott, Mark. "An overview of 'Bartleby the Scrivener." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

4.  Giles, Todd. "Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener." The Explicator. (Vol. 65). .2 (Winter 2007): p88. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

5.  Goldleaf, Steven. "Bartleby, The Scrivener: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

6.  Gupta, R. K. "'Bartleby': Melville's Critique of Reason." Indian Journal of American Studies. 4.1-2 ( 1974): 66-71. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

7.  Manheim, Dan. "Melville's Benito Cereno." The Explicator. (Vol. 63). .3 (Spring 2005): p151. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

8.  Martin, Terry J. "The idea of nature in "Benito Cereno."." Studies in Short Fiction. (Vol. 30). .2 (Spring 1993): p161. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

9.  Meyer, Joseph Matthew. "Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener." The Explicator. (Vol. 64). .2 (Winter 2006): p84. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

10.  Reiss, Benjamin D. "Madness and mastery in Melville's "Benito Cereno." (Herman Melville)." Criticism. (Vol. 38). .1 (Winter 1996): p115. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

11.  Rohrberger, Mary. "Benito Cereno: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

12.  Wenke, John. "Herman Melville." Antebellum Writers in New York: Second Series. Ed. Kent P. Ljungquist. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 250. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

  1. Wilson, Robert Andrew. "Sympathy for the lawyer: a source for "Bartleby" and nineteenth-century prison reform." ANQ. (Vol. 21). .4 (Fall 2008): p24. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

Stephen Crane

1.  "The Open Boat." Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

  1. Bender, Bert. "The Nature and Significance of 'Experience' in 'The Open Boat'." The Journal of Narrative Technique. 9.2 (Spring 1979): 70-80. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  2. Berryman, Ralph Ross John and Allen Tate. "Stephen Crane: The Open Boat." The Arts of Reading. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1960. 254-288. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  3. Ditsky, John. "The Music in 'The Open Boat'." NDQ: North Dakota Quarterly. 56.1 (Winter 1988): 119-130. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  4. Eye, Stefanie Bates. "Fact, Not Fiction: Questioning Our Assumptions about Crane's 'The Open Boat'." Studies in Short Fiction. 35.1 (Fall 1998): 65-76. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  5. Frederick, John T. "The Fifth Man in 'The Open Boat'." The CEA Critic. 30.7 (Apr. 1968): 1. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  6. Frus, Phyllis. "Two Tales 'Intended to Be after the Fact': 'Stephen Crane's Own Story' and 'The Open Boat.'." Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Ed. Chris Anderson Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. 125-151. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 129. Detroit: Gale, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  7. Knapp, Bettina L. "Tales of Adventure." Stephen Crane. Ungar Publishing Company, 1987. 145-162. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson and Marie Lazzari. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  8. Marcus, Mordecai. "The Three-Fold View of Nature in 'The Open Boat'." Philological Quarterly. 61.2 (Apr. 1962): 511-515. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  9. Metress, Christopher. "From Indifference to Anxiety: Knowledge and the Reader in 'The Open Boat.'." Studies in Short Fiction. 28.1 (Winter 1991): 47-53. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 56. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
  10. Metzger, Charles R. "Realistic Devices in Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'." The Midwest Quarterly. 4.1 (Oct. 1962): 47-54. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.

12.  Meyers, Robert. "Crane's 'The Open Boat'." The Explicator. 21.8 (Apr. 1963): 60. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.