Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat; R. L. Stevenson: Markheim; Guy de Maupassant: A Piece of String; A Coward; E. A. Poe: The Cask of Amontillado; Edith Wharton: The Bolted Door; A Journey; Henry Van Dyke: A Lover of Music; S. R. Crockett: Elsie’s Dance for Her Life; Jack London: The White Silence.

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WHAT TO READ ABOUT THE SHORT STORY

Albright, Evelyn MayThe Short Story, its Principles and Structure
Barrett, Charles R.Short Story Writing
Buck, Gertrude, and Morris, Elizabeth WoodbridgeA Course in Narrative Writing
Canby, Henry SeidelThe Short Story in English
Cody, SherwinStory Writing and Journalism
Dye, CharityThe Story Teller’s Art
Esenwein, Joseph BergWriting the Short Story
Hamilton, ClaytonMaterials and Methods of Fiction
Matthews, BranderThe Philosophy of the Short Story
Perry, BlissA Study of Prose Fiction
Pitkin, Walter B.Short Story Writing
Wells, CarolynThe Technique of the Mystery Story

MODERN SHORT STORIES


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MODERN SHORT STORY

THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA[[1]]
By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

[1]. It may be of interest to those who approach Folk-Lore stories from the scientific side, to know that this story was told to one of my little boys three years ago by a negro named John Holder. I have since found a variant (or perhaps the original) in Theal’s “Kaffir Folk-Lore.”