Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --The bloody chamber / Angela Carter --Blues ain't no mockin bird / Toni Cade Bambara --Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann --The guest / Albert Camus --In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff --Lamb to the slaughter / Roald Dahl --Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Sui Sin Far --The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --The new dress / Virginia Woolf --The open boat / Stephen Crane --Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges --The revolt of 'Mother' / Mary Wilkins Freeman --Shooting an elephant / George Orwell --Slave on the block / Langston Hughes --Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson --Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips --The star / Arthur C. Clarke --The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko.