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Certified teacher, Rhode Island. Member of the New England Library Association, Rhode Island Library Association, and the Rhode Island Educational Media Association.  \nChristopher Maloney: Head Reference Librarian, Ocean City Free Public Library, Ocean City, New Jersey. Member of the American Library Association and the New Jersey Library Association. Board member of the South Jersey Library Cooperative.  \nKathleen Preston: Head of Reference, New City Library, New City, New York. Member of the American Library Association. Received B.A. and M.L.S. from University of Albany.  \nPatricia Sarles: Library Media Specialist, Canarsie  \nHigh School, Brooklyn, New York. Expert Guide in Biography/Memoir for the web[site](site About.com)[ About.com](site About.com) ([http://biography.about.com](http://biography.about.com)). Author of short stories and book reviews. Received B.A. , M.A. (anthropology), and M.L.S. from Rutgers University.  \nHeidi Stohs: Instructor in Language Arts, grades 10–12, Solomon High School, Solomon, Kansas. Received B.S. from Kansas State University; M.A. from Fort Hays State University.  \nBarbara Wencl: Library Media Specialist, Como Park Senior High School, St. Paul, Minnesota. Teacher of secondary social studies and history, St. Paul, Minnesota. Received B.S. and M.Ed. from University of Minnesota; received media certification from University of Wisconsin. Educator and media specialist with over 30 years experience.  \nTable of Contents  \nGuest Foreword  \n“Why Study Literature At All?”Thomas E. Barden ........ vii  \nIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . ix  \nLiterary Chronology . . . . . . xiii  \nAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . xv  \nContributors . . . . . . . . . xix  \nThe Arabian Nights Richard Burton ......... 1  \nBoule de Suif Guy de Maupassant ........ 22  \nConscience of the Court Zora Neale Hurston ........ 52  \nCrazy Sunday F. Scott Fitzgerald ........ 73  \nEyes of a Blue Dog Gabriel García Márquez ...... 100  \nGorilla, My Love Toni Cade Bambara ....... 116  \nGreyhound People Alice Adams ......... 137  \nIf You Sing like That for Me Akhil Sharma ......... 156  \nIn the Zoo  \nJean Stafford . . . . . . . . . 173  \nThe Kugelmass Episode Woody Allen ......... 192  \nNo. 44, The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain ......... 207  \n\"Repent, Harlequin!\" Said the  \nTicktockman Harlan Ellison ......... 230  \nRikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling ........ 256  \nThink of England Peter Ho Davies ........ 270  \nGlossary of Literary Terms ... 295  \nCumulative Author/Title Index . 307  \nNationality/Ethnicity Index .. 315  \nSubject/Theme Index . . . . . . 321  \nWhy Study Literature At All?  \nShort Stories for Students is designed to provide readers with information and discussion about a wide range of important contemporary and historical works of short fiction, and it does that job very well. However, I want to use this guest foreword to address a question that it does not take up. It is a fundamental question that is often ignored in highschool and college English classes as well as research texts, and one that causes frustration among students at all levels, namely—why study literature at all? Isn’t it enough to read a story, enjoy it, and go about one’s business? My answer (to be expected from a literary professional, I suppose) is no. It isnot enough. It is a start; but it is not enough. Here’s why.  \nFirst, literature is the only part of the educational curriculum that deals directly with the actual world of lived experience. The philosopher Edmund Husserl used the apt German term die Lebenswelt,“the living world,” to denote this realm. All the other content areas of the modern American educational system avoid the subjective, present reality of everyday life. 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