{"product_id":"2940150451476","title":"Short Stories for English Courses","description":"Why must we confine the reading of our children to the older literary classics? This is the question asked by an ever- increasing number of thoughtful teachers. They have no wish to displace or to discredit the classics. On the contrary, they love and revere them. But they do wish to give their pupils something additional, something that pulses with present life, that is characteristic of to-day. The children, too, wonder that, with the great literary outpouring going on about them, they must always fill their cups from the cisterns of the past.\u003cbr\u003eThe short story is especially adapted to supplement our high- school reading. It is of a piece with our varied, hurried, efficient American life, wherein figure the business man's lunch, the dictagraph, the telegraph, the telephone, the automobile, and the railway \"limited.\" It has achieved high art, yet conforms to the modern demand that our literature—since it must be read with despatch, if read at all—be compact and compelling. Moreover, the short story is with us in almost overwhelming numbers, and is probably here to stay. Indeed, our boys and girls are somewhat appalled at the quantity of material from which they must select their reading, and welcome any instruction that enables them to know the good from the bad. It is certain, therefore, that, whatever else they may throw into the educational discard when they leave the high school, they will keep and use anything they may have learned about this form of literature which has become so powerful a factor in our daily life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eREQUIREMENTS OF THE SHORT STORY\u003cbr\u003eHOW THIS BOOK MAY BE USED\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE Henry van Dyke\u003cbr\u003eA FRENCH TAR-BABY Joel Chandler Harris\u003cbr\u003eSONNY'S CHRISTENIN' Ruth McEnery Stuart\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTMAS NIGHT WITH SATAN John Fox, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eA NEST-EGG James Whitcomb Riley\u003cbr\u003eWEE WILLIE WINKIE Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOLD BUG Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eTHE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF O. Henry\u003cbr\u003eTHE FRESHMAN FULL-BACK Ralph D. Paine\u003cbr\u003eGALLEGHER Richard Harding Davis\u003cbr\u003eTHE JUMPING FROG Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003eTHE LADY OR THE TIGER? Frank R. Stockton\u003cbr\u003eTHE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT Francis Bret Harte\u003cbr\u003eTHE REVOLT OF MOTHER Mary E. Wilkins Freeman\u003cbr\u003eMARSE CHAN Thomas Nelson Page\u003cbr\u003e\"POSSON JONE'\" George W. Cable\u003cbr\u003eOUR AROMATIC UNCLE Henry Cuyler Bunner\u003cbr\u003eQUALITY John Galsworthy\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT Edith Wharton\u003cbr\u003eA MESSENGER Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews\u003cbr\u003eMARKHEIM Robert Louis Stevenson.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068450947312,"sku":"2940150451476","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150451476_p0.jpg?v=1763745952","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150451476","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}