Modern Short Stories in English by American Authors [antikvár]

Preface All the stories in this book have appeared in current magazines. They have been written by well-known authors and deal almost entirely with present-day American life. The stories should be of particular interest to the many students everywhere who, while studying English, wish at the same time to learn something of the American scene. The stories have been adapted only slightly, and the book is designed for use by advanced students. Slang expressions and words of unusual difficulty have been eliminated, but otherwise the stories remain as originally written. No attempt has been made to alter in any way the style of the individual authors. The stories fall within the form known today as the short short-story. Stories of this type were selected intentionally, as providing a very convenient study medium. Each story is only four or five pages in length and can be studied easily within one or two class sessions. Such a story, as any teacher will recognize, has a great advantage over the old fashioned short-story, which sometimes stretched itself over thirty or forty pages. Each story is provided with study helps. There are vocabulary review exercises. There are also questions based on the story for conversational purposes. The teacher can easily expand upon these questions if more conversational material is required. A question like, "Why did not Mr. Whitney call the police?" can be supplemented with "What iii