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    A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants"
    A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants"
    A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants"
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    A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants"

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    A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535827256
    A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants"

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      A Study Guide for Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen versus the Ants" - Gale

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      Leiningen Versus the Ants

      Carl Stephenson

      1938

      Introduction

      Leiningen Versus the Ants is a short story by the twentieth-century German writer Carl Stephenson. It was first published in English in Esquire in December 1938 and has been reprinted many times since in short story anthologies. It is one of the most popular adventure stories ever written. It can be found in Great Stories of Suspense and Adventure, edited by Beth Johnson and Barbara Solot and published by Townsend Press in 2003; Twenty-One Great Stories, edited by Abraham H. Lass and Norma L. Tasman (Signet, 1969); Classic Adventure Stories: Twenty-one Tales of People Pushed to the Limit, edited by Stephen Vincent Brennan (Lyons Press, 2004), and Fictional Ants, published by Books LLC in 2010.

      Leiningen Versus the Ants is an adventure story set on a large plantation in Brazil. The protagonist, Leiningen, is a German settler who learns that his plantation is threatened by an advancing army of millions of ants. The ant army stretches for ten miles and is two miles wide. The ants will destroy the plantation and kill Leiningen and all his men unless he can figure out a way to stop them. The story is a classic of its kind; the protagonist must battle the forces of nature in order to survive.

      Author Biography

      Not much is known about the life and work of Stephenson. He was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 3, 1893. He also published work under the name of Stephen Sorel. He has even been confused with the American medieval historian Carl Stephenson (1886–1954). The date of his death is unknown, but is likely to have been in the late 1960s.

      The best source in English for information about Stephenson's life is the introduction to Leiningen Versus the Ants written in 2010 by Dan Neyer, for the Web site The Nostalgia League. According to Neyer, Stephenson was the head of a publishing company based in

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