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jdintr's review
2.0
I picked this book up to find some ideas for a high school American Literature class I teach. Many of the excerpts can already be found in high school literature textbooks--Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams," O Henry's "Gift of the Magi," and Alice Walkers, "Everyday Use."
There were other stories that I found fascinating. The two stories that hold up the center of the book, Stephen Crane's "Maggie; a Girl of the Streets" and "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis are exemplars of American realism. "Ms Beazley's Deeds" is another find by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an early 20th-century writer who stature has risen in the past five years, primarily on the strength of her longer story, "The Yellow Wallpaper."
This is a good collection that readers will find hit-or miss. I wouldn't recommend reading it straight through, as I did. But teachers will find six to eight stories worth filing away for a unit on class, such as The Great Gatsby.
There were other stories that I found fascinating. The two stories that hold up the center of the book, Stephen Crane's "Maggie; a Girl of the Streets" and "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis are exemplars of American realism. "Ms Beazley's Deeds" is another find by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an early 20th-century writer who stature has risen in the past five years, primarily on the strength of her longer story, "The Yellow Wallpaper."
This is a good collection that readers will find hit-or miss. I wouldn't recommend reading it straight through, as I did. But teachers will find six to eight stories worth filing away for a unit on class, such as The Great Gatsby.
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