Donna M. Campbell

Reading and Discussion Questions

Terms for Discussing Drama, Poetry, and Fiction

The following links lead to reading and discussion questions.

Alcott, Louisa May Work: A Story of Experience
Chopin, Kate "The Story of an Hour"
  "The Storm"
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg "The Portable Phonograph"
Crane, Stephen "The Blue Hotel"
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins "A New England Nun"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Blithedale Romance
  Brief questions on "Rappaccini's Daughter, "The Celestial Railroad," and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
   
Hemingway, Ernest "Soldier's Home"
Howells, W. D. "Editha"
  The Rise of Silas Lapham
Jackson, Shirley "The Lottery"
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady, Book I
  "Daisy Miller"
Melville, Herman Moby-Dick
  "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
   
Moore, Laurie "How to Become a Writer"
Ridge, John Rollin (Yellow Bird) The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Steinbeck, John "The Chrysanthemums"
Twain, Mark General questions on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Pudd'nhead Wilson
Wharton, Edith (note: for other reading questions, go to the Edith Wharton Society site.) "The Other Two"
  "Roman Fever"
  The Custom of the Country