Studying the Short Story: sixteen short-story classics, with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools. By
J. Berg Esenwein (Joseph Berg), (1918). Fiction as an art has made more
progress during the last hundred years than any other literary type. The
first half of the nineteenth century especially developed a
consciousness of subject matter and form in both the novel and the short
story which has created an epoch as notable in the history of fiction
as was the age of Shakespeare in the progress of the drama. In Great
Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and America arose fictional artists of
distinguished ability, while in other nations writers of scarcely less
merit soon followed.
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