The Short Story
Subtitle: The Reality of Artifice (Genres in Context)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 2, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415938839
First sentence: Although there is some justification for the common claim that the short story as a distinct literary genre began in the nineteenth century, the wellsprings of the form are sold as the primitive realm of myth.