Two Routes

One route into the material is geographical. Click on a continent and you will find a handful of the finest short stories. The other route is thematic. Click on a theme and you find multiple stories centered around it.

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No doubt there are gaps. It’s a big world out there and some regions with their own literary giants were no doubt ignored...

Why Tess?

What is the point of learning about ethics? An ethics course should teach you how to recognize a moral issue when it stares you in the face...

For Whom?

In collecting these short stories, my target audience has been juniors and seniors in high school and intro college courses...

Why the Title?

“TESS” is just an acronym. But it is reminiscent of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles...