Stories by American Authors
“A brilliant series.”—Boston Courier.
Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons have in hand a publication of unusual importance and interest, in the volumes of “Stories by American Authors,” of which they have just begun the issue.
The books carry their sufficient explanation in their brief title. They are collections of the more noteworthy short stories contributed by American writers during the last twenty-five years—and especially during the last ten—either to periodicals or publications now for some reason not easily accessible.
It is surprising that such a collection has not been attempted earlier, in view of the extraordinarily large proportion of strong work in American fiction which has been cast in the form of the short story.
If the publishers of the present collection are right, it will not only show the remarkably large number of contemporary American authors who have won general acknowledgment of their excellence in this field, but will surprise most readers by the number of capital and striking stories by less frequent writers, which are scattered through our recent periodical literature.
In England, in the well-known “Tales from Blackwood,” the experiment was tried of publishing such stories taken from a single magazine within a limited time. But the noticeable feature of the present volumes will be seen to be the extent of the field from which they draw, and their fully representative character.
Cloth, 16mo, 50 cents each.
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