Bibliograph

A Book of the short story, selected and edited, with the history and technique of the short story, notes, and bibliographies by E.A. Cross ..

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A Book of the short story, selected and edited, with the history and technique of the short story, notes, and bibliographies by E.A. Cross ..

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1039-1055) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A Book of the short story

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

535428

Responsibility statement

selected and edited, with the history and technique of the short story, notes, and bibliographies by E.A. Cross ..

Summary

Includes history and technique of the short story

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- 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 management 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 / Nathaniel 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 oF 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 Pirandello -- The seven that were hanged / Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev -- The truth of the Oliver Cromwell / Hames Brendan Connolly -- Samuel / Jack London -- The princess and the vagabond / Ruth Sawyer -- A municipal report / 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

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