The short story: fiction in transition.

John Chesley Taylor

Original title: The Short Story

earliest edition we have, 1973 Scribner, 1973 692 pages

Nathaniel Hawthorne / The artist of the beautiful Edgar Allan Poe / Cask of Amontillado Herman Melville / Bartleby the scrivener: A tale of Wall Street Fyodor Dostoevsky / The crocodile Anton Chekhov / On official business Guy De Maupassant / Minuet Giovanni Verga / The she-wolf Henry James / The middle years Joseph Conrad / Il Conde J.F. Powers / Lions, harts, leaping does Stephen Crane / The blue hotel Maxim Gorky...

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