Studying the short-story / Sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools. - Unknown

REVISED EDITION

THE WRITER’S LIBRARY
EDITED BY J. BERG ESENWEIN

HINDS, HAYDEN & ELDREDGE, Inc.
NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

		PAGE
	TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS	[vii]
	PUBLISHERS’ NOTE	[xi]
	AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE SHORT-STORY	[xiii]
I.	STORIES OF ACTION AND ADVENTURE	[1]
	Mérimée and His Writings	[4]
	“Mateo Falcone,” Prosper Mérimée	[8]
	Stevenson and His Writings	[29]
	“A Lodging for the Night,” Robert Louis Stevenson	[34]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[67]
	Ten Representative Stories of Action and Adventure	[68]
II.	STORIES OF MYSTERY AND FANTASY	[69]
	Poe and His Writings	[72]
	“The Purloined Letter,” Edgar Allan Poe	[76]
	Jacobs and His Writings	[108]
	“The Monkey’s Paw,” W. W. Jacobs	[111]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[129]
	Ten Representative Stories of Mystery and Fantasy	[130]
III.	STORIES OF EMOTION	[131]
	Daudet and His Writings	[135]
	“The Last Class,” Alphonse Daudet	[139]
	Kipling and His Writings	[147]
	“Without Benefit of Clergy,” Rudyard Kipling	[151]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[189]
	Ten Representative Stories of Emotion or Sentiment	[190]
IV.	HUMOROUS STORIES	[191]
	Henry and His Writings	[194]
	“The Ransom of Red Chief,” O. Henry	[198]
	Barrie and His Writings	[215]
	“The Courting of T’Nowhead’s Bell,” James M. Barrie	[219]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[249]
	Ten Representative Humorous Stories	[250]
V.	STORIES OF SETTING	[251]
	Harte and His Writings	[255]
	“The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” Bret Harte	[259]
	Maupassant and His Writings	[277]
	“Moonlight,” Guy de Maupassant	[281]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[290]
	Ten Representative Stories of Setting	[290]
VI.	IMPRESSIONISTIC STORIES	[291]
	Hawthorne and His Writings	[297]
	“The White Old Maid,” Nathaniel Hawthorne	[302]
	“The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe	[320]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[351]
	Ten Representative Impressionistic Stories	[352]
VII.	CHARACTER STUDIES	[353]
	“The Piece of String,” Guy de Maupassant	[356]
	Coppée and His Writings	[368]
	“The Substitute,” François Coppée	[371]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[388]
	Ten Representative Character Studies	[389]
VIII.	PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES	[390]
	“Markheim,” Robert Louis Stevenson	[394]
	Morrison and His Writings	[422]
	“On the Stairs,” Arthur Morrison	[425]
	Suggestive Questions for Study	[431]
	Ten Representative Psychological Studies	[432]
	BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE	[433]
	INDEX	[437]

TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Growing out of my former volume, Writing the Short-Story, appeared the use for a new book that should contain a large number of short-stories arranged and annotated in form suitable for school or private study. Accordingly, the unique marginal arrangement for notes, which was first used in the study of Maupassant’s “The Necklace,” in the earlier work, was also adopted in this, with the addition of exhaustive critical introductions and comments. Further study, whether by classes or by individuals, has been facilitated by the reading references upon the authors represented, and—arranged under each of the eight type-groups—the explicit lists of ten representative short-stories available for reading and analysis.