Short Stories Study Guide

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Should-Know (3)
Walter Mitty 5x $820 avg DJ:5
DJ $400 1997 James Thurber's story of this daydreaming husband first appeared in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker
DJ $700 DD 2000 As a brilliant surgeon in his daydreams, this henpecked title character saves the life of a millionaire
DJ $1,000 1988 "With that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad", according to Thurber
Rip Van Winkle 5x $2,050 avg DJ:4 FJ:1
DJ $200 1997 This Washington Irving title character had "An insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor"
DJ $1,600 DD 2006 In an 1819 tale, his daughter says about him, "It's been twenty years since he went away from home, with his gun"
FJ 2026 Encountering one that snarls at him in an 1819 work, this title character exclaims, "My very dog... has forgotten me!"
O. Henry 4x 50.0% stumper $1,200 avg DJ:4
DJ $400 1992 His 1st book of stories appeared in 1904, 3 years after he finished serving time for embezzling
DJ $800 2000 This master of surprise endings gave us the double-suicide tale "The Furnished Room"
DJ $1,600 2002 While in prison for embezzlement, he published his 1st short story, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking"
Worth Knowing (6)
Stephen Crane 2 New Orleans 2 Isaac Bashevis Singer 2 "The Lottery" 2 Eudora Welty 2 a leaf 2

American Literature

3 answers | 6 clues
Worth Knowing (3)
John Steinbeck 2 J.D. Salinger 2 Ernest Hemingway 2

Poetry

1 answers | 3 clues
Worth Knowing (1)
(Edgar Allan) Poe 3

Mystery / Thriller

1 answers | 2 clues
Worth Knowing (1)
Miss Marple 2

Shakespeare

1 answers | 2 clues
Worth Knowing (1)
Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
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