Studying the short-story; sixteen short-story classics, with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools

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J. Berg Esenwein’s volume is a study course in the short story, bringing together sixteen examples with introductions, notes, and a method for individual work or classroom teaching. In a discussion of Hawthorne, attention falls on how a room’s details and the story’s construction create an air of mystery and sorrow. Elsewhere, Villon challenges a lord’s distinction between a poor man’s theft and a soldier’s gains in wartime, showing how close reading can turn a scene of dialogue into an argument about honor.