A study of the short story
By: by Henry Seidel Canby and Alfred Dashiell
Contributors: Dashiell, Alfred S. (Alfred Sheppard), 1901-1970, author
Edition: Rev.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 1935
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Short story; Short stories
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: I. What is a short story?; title: The Medieval short story; title: The Short story of the Renaissance; title: The Short story of the Eighteenth Century; title: The Short story and the romantic movement; title: Poe, and the further development of the romantic short story; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: England in the mid-century; title: America in the mid-century. The Broadening of the field of the short story; title: Bret Harte; title: The Futher broadening of the field of the short story; title: The Local colorists; title: The Deepening of the short story. Henry James; title: Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Rudyard Kipling; title: The Pre-War short story; title: The Contemporary short story. ILLUSTRATIVE SHORT STORIES. The Pardoners tale / Geoffrey Chaucer; title: The Vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison; title: The Lingering expectation of an heir / Samuel Johnson; title: Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott; title: The Gold-Bug / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Rab and his friends / John Brown; title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte; title: The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: On Greenhow Hill / Rudyard Kipling; title: The Complete life of John Hopkins / O. Henry; title: I Want to know why / Sherwood Anderson; title: Bliss / Katherine Mansfield; title: The Killers / Ernest Hemingway; title: Dry September / William Faulkner; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald.