Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of Short Stories for Students (SSfS). Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN SSfS, VOLUME 17, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Arizona Quarterly 1973, 1981 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—Twentieth Century Literature, v. 45, Spring, 1999. Copyright 1999, Hofstra University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Variaciones Borges, v. 5, 1998. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN SSfS, VOLUME 17, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Evans, Elizabeth. From Anne Tyler. Twayne Publishers, 1993. Copyright 1993 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hibbard, Allen. From Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Patrouch, Joseph F., Jr. From The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Seyersted, Per. From Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography. Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Whitehead, John. From Maugham: A Reappraisal, pp. 80–113. Vision Press Limited and Barnes & Noble Books, 1987. © 1987 by John Whitehead. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN SSfS, VOLUME 17, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Asimov, Isaac, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Borges, Jorge Luis, photograph by Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Bowles, Paul, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Chopin, Kate, photograph.—Cover of "New Yorker" Magazine from January 31, 1948, photograph. Original Artwork by Charles E. Martin. Copyright © 1948 The New Yorker Magazine Inc. Reprinted by permission. All Rights Reserved.—Hemingway, Ernest, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Lancaster, Burt, and Ava Gardner in the film "The Killers," 1946, photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Map of Israel and neighboring countries prior to the 1967 Six Day War (left), map showing territory captured by Israel during the Six Day War (right). © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Maugham, W. Somerset, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Muslim woman, standing next to an enclosed cell where suspected militants wait for the opening of their trial in a military court in Haekstep, Egypt, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Oates, Joyce Carol, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, designed by Bernard R. Maybeck, photograph. © Art on File/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Policeman standing outside the Lion Bar, near a burning barricade on a street in Belfast during riots in Northern Ireland, photograph. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Salinger, J. D., 1951, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Sun during eclipse, photograph. New York Pubic Library Picture Collection.—Tyler, Anne, photograph. Courtesy of Knopf. Reproduced by permission.—View of Tangier, Morocco, photograph. © Roger Wood/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Wetzel, Marlene Reed, photograph. Reproduced by permission.