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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story by Blanche H. Gelfant (Editor); Lawrence Graver (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780231504959
Publication Date: 2004-04-21
Gathers together essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories," and part 2 contains more than one hundred essays on the lives and work of individual writers, including engaging pieces on promising new writers.
Reference Guide to Short Fiction by Thomas Riggs (Editor)
ISBN: 9781558625396
Publication Date: 2003-12-01
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of short-fiction authors, written by subject experts.

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