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 May | The Short Story, its Principles and Structure |
| Barrett, Charles R. | Short Story Writing |
| Buck, Gertrude, and Morris, Elizabeth Woodbridge | A Course in Narrative Writing |
| Canby, Henry Seidel | The Short Story in English |
| Cody, Sherwin | Story Writing and Journalism |
| Dye, Charity | The Story Teller’s Art |
| Esenwein, Joseph Berg | Writing the Short Story |
| Hamilton, Clayton | Materials and Methods of Fiction |
| Matthews, Brander | The Philosophy of the Short Story |
| Perry, Bliss | A Study of Prose Fiction |
| Pitkin, Walter B. | Short Story Writing |
| Wells, Carolyn | The Technique of the Mystery Story |
MODERN SHORT STORIES
THE
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.”