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The prodigal son / The Bible
The mysterious bride / James Hogg
Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving
Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott
The pistol shot / Alexander Pushkin
Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaneil Hawthorne
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte
Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions / Charles Dickens
Taking the redoubt / Prosper Merimee
Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The love letters of Smith / Henry Cuyler Bunner
The last class / Alphonse Daudet
The lesson of the master / Henry James
The lady, or the tiger / Frank Richard Stockton
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
Will o' the mill / Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Three arshins of land / Leo Tolstoy
Where love is, there God is also / Leo Tolstoy
The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The darling / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The revolt of "mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The snow story / Chauncy Thomas
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
King Solomon o
f Kentucky / James Lane Allen
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
On the stairs / Arthur Morrison
Martha's fireplace / Hamlin Garland
Adventure of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The door in the wall / Herbert George Wells
The reserved coffin / Luigi Piandello
The seven that were hanged / Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
The truth of the Oliver Cromwell / Hames Brendan Connolly
Samuel / Jack London
The princess and the vagabone / Ruth Sawyer
A municiapl reprot / O. Henry
The procurator of Judea / Anatole France
The drake who had means of his own / Owen Wister
The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof
The bear tamer's daughter / Konrad Bercovici
After he was dead / Melville Davisson Post
The water hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt
The great auk / Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
The silent infare / Armistead C. Gordon
Jetsam / John Russell
300 miles away / Frank R. Adams
The weaver's grave / Seumas O'Kelly
England to America / Margaret Prescott Montague
For they know not what they do / Wilbur Daniel Steele
A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier
The fat of the land / Anzia Yezierska
The fly / Katherine Mansfield
Clay shattered doors / Helen Rose Hull
Miss Hinch / Henry Sydnor Harrison
The man of the family / Ruth Suckow
Neither Jew nor Greek / William M. John
Who killed Rutherford? / Walter D. Edmonds
Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway
Civilization / R. Hernekin Baptist
Night club / Katharine Brush
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
1103

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Table of Contents

Foreward
Part one
History and technique of the short story: Chapter I: The history of the short story
Chapter II: The materials from which stories are made
Chapter III: The short story is an impression from life
Chapter IV: Plot
Chapter V: The characters
Chapter VI: Other means used in developing a theme
Chapter VII: The mamagement of the material
Chapter VIII: A plan for the study of a short story
Part two
Selected short stories: The prodigal son / The Bible
The mysterious bride / James Hogg
Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving
Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott
The pistol shot / Alexander Pushkin
Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaneil Hawthorne
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte
Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions / Charles Dickens
Taking the redoubt / Prosper Merimee
Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The love letters of Smith / Henry Cuyler Bunner
The last class / Alphonse Daudet
The lesson of the master / Henry James
The lady, or the tiger / Frank Richard Stockton
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
Will o' the mill / Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Three arshins of land / Leo Tolstoy
Where love is, there God is also / Leo Tolstoy
The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The darling / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The revolt of "mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The snow story / Chauncy Thomas
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
King Solomon o
f Kentucky / James Lane Allen
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
On the stairs / Arthur Morrison
Martha's fireplace / Hamlin Garland
The adventure of the speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The door in the wall / Herbert George Wells
The reserved coffin / Luigi Piandello
The seven that were hanged / Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
The truth of the Oliver Cromwell / Hames Brendan Connolly
Samuel / Jack London
The princess and the vagabone / Ruth Sawyer
A municiapl reprot / O. Henry
The procurator of Judea / Anatole France
The drake who had means of his own / Owen Wister
The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof
The bear tamer's daughter / Konrad Bercovici
After he was dead / Melville Davisson Post
The water hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt
The great auk / Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
The silent infare / Armistead C. Gordon
Jetsam / John Russell
300 miles away / Frank R. Adams
The weaver's grave / Seumas O'Kelly
England to America / Margaret Prescott Montague
For they know not what they do / Wilbur Daniel Steele
A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier
The fat of the land / Anzia Yezierska
The fly / Katherine Mansfield
Clay shattered doors / Helen Rose Hull
Miss Hinch / Henry Sydnor Harrison
The man of the family / Ruth Suckow
Neither Jew nor Greek / William M. John
Who killed Rutherford? / Walter D. Edmonds
Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway
Civilization / R. Hernekin Baptist
Night club / Katharine Brush
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
Selected bibliographies
Study notes
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1039-1055) and index.

Published in
New York, Boston, Cincinatti, Atlanta, Chicago
Copyright Date
1934

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.83 C88
Library of Congress
PZ1.C884 Bo

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
vii, 1103 p. ;
Number of pages
1103

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6314190M
Internet Archive
bookofshortstory0000unse
LCCN
34038905
OCLC/WorldCat
535428, 760516574
Goodreads
59708640

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