Short stories
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Physical Description:
xxxv, 612 pages ; 20 cm
print - Edition: Enlarged edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Chicago : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Contains brief biographical sketches of the authors. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-612). "A list of short stories [not printed in this volume]": pages 602-608. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgments -- Chronological order -- Preface -- Hints to fellow-workers -- Word to the student -- Introduction: Short story defined -- Ingredients of the short story -- Types of the short story -- Historical sketch of the short story -- Token / Joseph Hergesheimer -- Third ingredient / O. Henry -- Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood -- Elephant remembers / Edison Marshall -- Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Postmistress of Laurel Run / Bret Harte -- Ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Penrod's busy day / Booth Tarkington -- Young man Axelbrod / Sinclair Lewis -- Ice water, pl---! / Fannie Hurst -- Heyday of the blood / Dorothy Canfield -- Hunger / Anzia Yezierska -- Remarkable wreck of the Thomas Hyke / Frank R. Stockton -- Zenobia's infidelity / H.C. Bunner -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Meadow lark / Edna Ferber -- Frill / Pearl S. Buck -- They grind exceeding small / Ben Ames Williams -- Sampler (short short) / I.V. Morris -- Speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- Three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Inn of the two witches / Joseph Conrad -- Stove / Marjorie L.C. Pickthall -- In the matter of a private / Rudyard Kipling -- Letter home / Arnold Bennett -- Will o' the mill / Robert Louis Stevenson -- How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lownie / James Matthew Barrie -- Quality / John Galsworthy -- Cup of tea / Katherine Mansfield -- Happiness / Guy de Maupassant -- Bet / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov -- Father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson -- Zodomirsky's duel / Alexandre Dumas -- Silver mine / Selma Lagerlof -- Reading lists according to types -- List of short stories -- Bibliography: Historical and critical -- Collections of short stories -- Books on short story writing. |
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Subject: | Short stories |
Genre: | Short story. Short stories. Short stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ellwood City Area Public Library | FIC Short Stories (Text) | 32102000282166 | ECAM Fiction | Available | - |