What is the short story? /
[edited by] Eugene Current-García and Walton R. Patrick.
- Revised.
- 532 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
On style and purpose in the short story / On the aim and techniques of the short story / Self-criticism / On problems of technique in the short story / On the genesis of "the real thing" / The development of the American short story / The philosophy of the short story / On the short story / Topics for discussion and writing -- Review of Matthews' Philosophy of the short-story / Free fiction / The senility of the short-story / "O. Henryism" / Form, not plot / How to write short stories / What is a story? / Topics for discussion and writing -- Little story, what now? / Some clinical notes / No plot, my dear, no story / Definition of "epiphany" / The reading and writing of short stories / What happened to the short story? / Short stories / Short stories for the millions / On problems of form and technique / On writing the short story / The fiction writer and his country / A reasonable use of the unreasonable / The short story / Topics for discussion and writing -- The spectre bridegroom / The shot / La grande Bretèche / The fall of the house of Usher / The birthmark / The tryst / The luck of roaring camp / Marjorie Daw / The piece of string / Easter eve / At the pit's mouth / The real thing / The monkey's paw / The gift of the magi / Araby / The strength of God / Miss Holloway's goat / A hunger artist / The fly / Blood-burning moon / Haircut / Ten Indians / Two blue birds / Theft / Mule in the yard / The daring young man on the flying trapeze / A visit of charity / A tree of night / The saint / Love, death and the ladies' drill team / A good man is hard to find / The man of the world / Just like a tree / Mrs. Billingsby's wine / How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again / Term-paper topics. Washington Irving -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Anton Chekhov -- Henry James -- Bret Harte -- Brander Matthews -- Henry Seidel Canby -- Anonymous -- Henry Seidel Canby -- Herbert Ellsworth Cory -- N. Bryllion Fagin -- Sherwood Anderson -- Ring Lardner -- William Saroyan -- Bonaro Overstreet -- Harry Shaw -- Anne Porter -- James Joyce -- Eudora Welty -- Herschel Brickell -- V.S. Pritchett -- Falcon O. Baker -- Truman Capote -- Frank O'Connor -- Flannery O'Connor -- Flannery O'Connor -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Washington Irving -- Alexander Pushkin -- Honoré de Balzac -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ivan Turgenev -- Bret Harte -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Guy de Maupassant -- Anton Chekhov -- Rudyard Kipling -- Henry James -- W.W. Jacobs -- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) -- James Joyce -- Sherwood Anderson -- Luigi Pirandello -- Franz Kafka -- Katherine Mansfield -- Jean Toomer -- Ring Lardner -- Ernest Hemingway -- D.H. Lawrence -- Katherine Anne Porter -- William Faulkner -- William Saroyan -- Eudora Welty -- Truman Capote -- V.S. Pritchett -- Jessamyn West -- Flannery O'Connor -- Frank O'Connor -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Peter Taylor -- Joyce Carol Oates --