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The Short Stories
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid "The Destructors" by Graham Greene "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell "The Open Window" by Saki "The New Dress" by Virginia Woolf "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates "The Monkey's Paw" by Jacobs

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**Literary Criticism**
[|Literary Criticism Collection] This IPL collection provides links to online sources of biography, bibliography, and criticism about major authors and works written worldwide. The most comprehensive coverage is in American and British authors. As mentioned in the Author Information section above, this collection has developed some technical problems. However, it still holds valuable information. If the author or work you are interested in is not available, try the **[|Online Literary Criticism Guide]**, [|//http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html////]//, for other good places to start looking on the Web.//

**Literary Index []**
The Gale Group publishes several series of literary criticism which are often found in libraries. These volumes usually include some biographical information on an author, a listing of major works, and a variety of excerpts from critical essays written about the author and works. There is a free index to 40 of these series, available online. You can search this// to find out which Gale series you might look at for information on your topic.

Literary Criticism on the Free Web

 * Literary History [|http://www.literaryhistory.com] An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular
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