This sourcebook presents reading guides for 22 literary works frequently used by secondary school English teachers. The guides contain an overview of the work, a pool of instructional objectives for each work, a variety of activities, a series of discussion options, suggestions for evaluation, and annotated lists of related works. Included are: "Foreword" (T. C. Ley); "Overview of Critical Approaches" (D. Clark and A. Dunlop); "Stephen Vincent Bennet's 'By the Waters of Babylon'" (N. J. Tow and J. Whitman); "Ambrose Bierce's 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'" (J. Lucci and M. Shepherd); "Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer'" (S. Douglas and S. Lessley); "Robert Cormier's 'I Am the Cheese'" (M. Evans and others); "T. S. Elliot's 'The Hollow Men'" (J. Atwood); "T. S. Elliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" (J. Copland); "Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'" (S. McAnulty); "William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'" (D. Gullatte and others); "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Ambitious Guest'" (W. J. Nix and J. Word-Ross); "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'" (P. Cherubini); "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'" (K. Hightower); "Ernest Hemingway's 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'" (D. Teel and D. Thompson); "Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's "House'" (P. Westbrook); "D. H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'" (E. Reynolds and D. L. Smith); "Flannery O'Connor's 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own'" (G. Kelley); "Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell Tale Heart'" (J. Blankenship and others); "William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'" (H. D. Freeman and others); "John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'" (B. Esslinger and others); "John Steinbeck's 'The Pearl'" (B. Doyle and others); "Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'" (N. Salter); and "Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'" (D. Teel). (NKA)