Portraits of Authors
Introduction
I. Definition and Development
II. Forms
III. The Short-story as Narration
IV. Representative Short-stories
V. Bibliography
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820)
Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842)
The Purloined Letter (1845)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838)
The Birthmark (1843)
Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de MalÉtroit's Door (1878)
Markheim (1885)
Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888)
Notes