If you have ever attended a school that had a teacher, coach, principal, or superintendent who made an impact on your life, you will enjoy this book. The mold was thrown away when Thad Morgan was created. The stories that are told about him by his classmates, his students, his friends, and his colleagues will make you wonder how he ever kept a job in a school system. Yet he became one of the most revered people who has ever lived in the town of Enterprise, Alabama.

This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.

This classic collection of short stories is an essential resource for teachers and students of English literature. Featuring works by such luminaries as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Kate Chopin, 'Short Stories for English Courses' covers a wide range of styles and themes, from horror to romance to social commentary. With helpful notes and analysis, this collection is sure to deepen readers' understanding of the short story form. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from the Preface: "This book does not attempt to select the greatest stories of the time. What tribunal would dare make such a choice? Nor does it attempt to trace the evolution of the short story or to point out natural types and differences. These topics are better suited to college classes. Its object is threefold: to supply interesting reading belonging to the student's own time, to help him to see that there is no divorce between classic and modern literature, and, by offering him material structurally good and typical of the qualities represented, to assist him in discriminating between the artistic and the inartistic."