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Title: The Short-story

Author: William Patterson Atkinson

Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21964]

Language: English

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[Illustration: WASHINGTON IRVING]

THE SHORT-STORY

With
Introduction and Notes

BY

W. PATTERSON ATKINSON, A.M.

VICE-PRINCIPAL OF THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
JERSEY CITY

ALLYN AND BACON

Boston New York Chicago

COPYRIGHT, 1916,
BY ALLYN AND BACON.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

FOREWORD

This book is the result of actual work with first year High School
pupils. Furthermore, the completed text has been tried out with them.
Their difficulties, standards of reading, and the average development of
their minds and taste have constantly been remembered. Whatever teaching
quality the book may possess is due to their criticisms.

Hearty thanks are due Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. Charles
Scribner's Sons, The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, and The Houghton Mifflin
Company for gracious permission to use copyrighted material.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS vii

INTRODUCTION

I. Definition and Development ix

II. Forms xvi

III. The Short-story as Narration xvii

IV. Representative Short-stories xxi

V. Bibliography xxv

WASHINGTON IRVING: Rip Van Winkle (1820) 1

EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Gold Bug (1842) 23

The Purloined Letter (1845) 69

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: Howe's Masquerade (1838) 93

The Birthmark (1843)