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Revised. |
| Description |
iv, 375 pages ; 19 cm |
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Also issued online. |
| Contents |
I. What is a short story? -- The Medieval short story -- The Short story of the Renaissance -- The Short story of the Eighteenth Century -- The Short story and the romantic movement -- Poe, and the further development of the romantic short story -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- England in the mid-century -- America in the mid-century. The Broadening of the field of the short story -- Bret Harte -- The Futher broadening of the field of the short story -- The Local colorists -- The Deepening of the short story. Henry James -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- The Pre-War short story -- The Contemporary short story. ILLUSTRATIVE SHORT STORIES. The Pardoners tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison -- The Lingering expectation of an heir / Samuel Johnson -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The Gold-Bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rab and his friends / John Brown -- The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- The Sire de Malétroit's door |
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I Want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The Killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald. |
| Subject |
Short story.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Dashiell, Alfred S. (Alfred Sheppard), 1901-1970 author.
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