Short stories by present-day authors
By: ed. by Raymond Woodbury Pence ...
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: Each group accompanied by reading list.
Table of contents: title: Stories of plot. (a) Dramatic incident: The red mark, John Russell. The Chink and the child, Thomas Burke. (b) Detective and mystery: The Doomdorf mystery, Melville Davisson Post. (c) Ingenuity and surprise: How it happened, A. Conan Doyle. (d) Problem: A jury of her peers, Susan Glaspell.; title: Stories of character. (a) Individual: Humoresque, Fannie Hurst. The game of life and death, Lincoln Colcord. (b) Psychological: The belled buzzard, Irvin Cobb.; title: Stories of setting. (a) Local color: The conversion of Elviny, Helen R. Martin. Vlad's son, Konrad Bercovici. (b) Atmosphere: The yellow cat, Wilbur D. Steele.; title: Stories of theme: The buckpasser, Hugh McNair Kahler.; title: Stories of mood. (a) Love: Opus 43, no. 6, John Taintor Foote. The last room of all, Stephen French Whitman. (b) Humor: The fight that failed, Octovus Roy Cohen. "Little gentlemen," Booth Tarkington. (c) Fantasy, The night call, Henry Van Dyke. The toll-house, W.W. Jacobs.; title: Notes.; title: Bibliographical lists: History and criticism of the story.; title: Technique of the short story. Volumes of short stories.