TEN REPRESENTATIVE IMPRESSIONISTIC STORIES
“The Luck of Roaring Camp,” Bret Harte, in The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories.
“The Father,” Björnstjerne Björnson, translated in Stories by Foreign Authors, Scandinavian.
“A Journey,” Edith Wharton, in The Greater Inclination.
“The Brushwood Boy,” Rudyard Kipling, in The Day’s Work.
“The Great Stone Face,” Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales.
“A Passion in the Desert,” Honoré de Balzac, translated in Little French Masterpieces, Balzac.
“The Pit and the Pendulum,” Edgar Allan Poe, in Tales.
“The Silent Woman,” Leopold Kompert, translated in Modern Ghosts.
“Jesus Christ in Flanders,” Honoré de Balzac, translated in Little French Masterpieces, Balzac.
“Silence,” Leonid Andreyev, translated in Short-Story Masterpieces.
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CHARACTER STUDIES
The Piece of String.—Guy de Maupassant
The Substitute.—François Coppée
Most of us, in actual life, are accustomed to distinguish people who are worth our while from people who are not; and those of us who live advisedly are accustomed to shield ourselves from people who cannot, by the mere fact of what they are, repay us for the expenditure of time and energy we should have to make to know them. And whenever a friend of ours asks us deliberately to meet another friend of his, we take it for granted that our friend has reasons for believing that the acquaintanceship will be of benefit or of interest to both. Now the novelist stands in the position of a friend who asks us to meet certain people whom he knows; and he runs the risk of our losing faith in his judgment unless we find his people worth our while.... He ... owes us an assurance that they shall be even more worth while than the average actual person.—Clayton Hamilton, Materials and Methods of Fiction.