Aspects of the modern short story
Subtitle: English and American
By: by Alfred C. Ward
Publisher: Lincoln MacVeagh; Dial Press
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Short story; English Short stories; History and criticism; American Short stories
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Twice-told tales"; title: Edgar Allan Poe: "Tales of mystery and imagination"; title: Bret Harte: "The luck of Roaring Camp"; title: Ambrose Bierce: "In the midst of life"; title: George Meredith: "The tale of Chloe," etc.; title: Henry James: "The turn of the screw"; title: Robert Louis Stevenson: "The merry men"; title: Rudyard Kipling: "Life's handicap"; title: H.G. Wells: "The country of the blind"; title: Joseph Conrad: "Typhoon"; title: Arthur T. Quiller-Couch: "Selected stories"; title: Walter de la Mare: "The riddle"; title: O. Henry: "The four million"; title: Leonard Merrick: "The man who understood women"; title: The detective story: Conan Doyle, Austin Freeman, H.C. Bailey; title: W.W. Jacobs: "Many cargoes"; title: Stacy Aumonier: "The love-a-duck"; title: C.E. Montague: "Fiery particles"; title: Anton Tchehov; title: a digression; title: Katherine Mansfield.