What is the short story? / [edited by] Eugene Current-García and Walton R. Patrick.

Includes bibliographical references.

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