Teacher Guide

The Enemy Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

An anthology in which "The Enemy" appears is titled Doctor's Choice: Sixteen Stories About Doctors and Medicine Selected by Famous Physicians, and includes stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Anton Chekhov, and Stefan Zweig, among others.

Other pertinent works by Pearl S. Buck include any of her myriad short stories, perhaps especially others written around the time of "The Enemy" (1941). Far and Near: Stories of Japan, China, and America (1947) is a collection which includes "The Enemy" as well as other stories of Japan, notable because most of Buck's writing on Asia centers in China.

Buck's best-known work is the novel A Good Earth, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for...

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