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100 1 _aLaw, Frederick Houk,
_d1871-1957
245 1 0 _aModern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2020-08-16
505 0 _aPreface -- Introduction -- The adventures of Simon and Susanna / Joel Chandler Harris -- The crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge -- The soul of the great bell / Lafcadio Hearn -- The ten trails / Ernest Thompson Seton -- Where love is, there God is also / Count Leo Tolstoi -- Wood-ladies / Perceval Gibbon -- On the fever ship / Richard Harding Davis -- A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier -- Moti Guj: Mutineer / Rudyard Kipling -- Gulliver the great / Walter A. Dyer -- Sonny's schoolin' / Ruth McEnery Stuart -- Her first horse show / David Gray -- My husband's book / James Matthew Barrie -- War / Jack London -- The battle of the monsters / Morgan Robertson -- A dilemma / S. Weir Mitchell -- The Red-headed League / A. Conan Doyle -- One hundred in the dark / Owen Johnson -- A retrieved reformation / O. Henry -- Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome -- A fight with death / Ian Maclaren -- The Dàn-nan-Ròn / Fiona Macleod.
508 _aProduced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools" by Frederick Houk Law et al. is a collection of contemporary short stories curated specifically for high school students, likely written in the early 20th century. The compilation aims to engage students with modern themes and authors, contrasting with older literature that often dominates school curricula. The editor emphasizes the importance of short stories as a vital component of literary education, fostering an appreciation for concise storytelling and diverse narrative forms. The opening of the anthology presents a preface that outlines the rationale for creating the collection, discussing the commonality and relevance of short stories in modern society. Law argues that these narratives are more appealing to high school students than lengthy novels, advocating for a curriculum that incorporates dynamic, contemporary stories to better prepare students for their post-school reading lives. He emphasizes the necessity for educators to guide students in their literary journey, promoting a thoughtful approach to reading and understanding the short story form. Additionally, the introduction sets the stage for the stories to follow, highlighting their modernity and potential for inspiration and discussion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFiction
653 _aShort stories
700 1 _aAumonier, Stacy,
_d1887-1928
700 1 _aBarrie, J. M.
_q(James Matthew),
_d1860-1937
700 1 _aBottome, Phyllis,
_d1882-1963
700 1 _aDavis, Richard Harding,
_d1864-1916
700 1 _aDodge, Mary Mapes,
_d1830-1905
700 1 _aDoyle, Arthur Conan,
_d1859-1930
700 1 _aDyer, Walter A.
_q(Walter Alden),
_d1878-1943
700 1 _aGibbon, Perceval,
_d1879-1926
700 1 _aGray, David,
_d1870-1968
700 1 _aHarris, Joel Chandler,
_d1848-1908
700 1 _aHearn, Lafcadio,
_d1850-1904
700 1 _aHenry, O.,
_d1862-1910
700 1 _aJohnson, Owen,
_d1878-1952
700 1 _aKipling, Rudyard,
_d1865-1936
700 1 _aLondon, Jack,
_d1876-1916
700 1 _aMaclaren, Ian,
_d1850-1907
700 1 _aMitchell, S. Weir
_q(Silas Weir),
_d1829-1914
700 1 _aRobertson, Morgan,
_d1861-1915
700 1 _aSeton, Ernest Thompson,
_d1860-1946
700 1 _aSharp, William,
_d1855-1905
700 1 _aStuart, Ruth McEnery,
_d1856-1917
700 1 _aTolstoy, Leo, graf,
_d1828-1910
700 1 _aBenda, Wladyslaw T.
_q(Wladyslaw Theodore),
_d1873-1948
700 1 _aFogarty, Thomas,
_d1873-1938
700 1 _aKemble, E. W.
_q(Edward Windsor),
_d1861-1933
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62942
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