The Story and Its Writer
Edition: Shorter Second Edition
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Boston and New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 845
ISBN-13: 9780312032418
Copyright date: 1990
Description: This shorter edition of a best-selling short fiction anthology presents 55 stories by 49 major writers together with 28 related critical commentaries by many of the same writers. The extensive accompanying editorial material includes biographical and critical headnotes for each writer, a history of the short story, an introduction to the elements of the short story, an appendix on writing about the short story, and a glossary of literary terms.