Short stories by present-day authors / ed. by Raymond Woodbury Pence ...

By: Pence, Raymond Woodbury, 1885-1977 [ed.]
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company, c1922Description: xii pages , 1 l., 431 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): Short storiesDDC classification: 808.831 LOC classification: PZ1.P372 | Sh
Contents:
Stories of plot. (a) Dramatic incident: The red mark, John Russell. The Chink and the child, Thomas Burke. (b) Detective and mystery: The Doomdorf mystery, Melville Davisson Post. (c) Ingenuity and surprise: How it happened, A. Conan Doyle. (d) Problem: A jury of her peers, Susan Glaspell.--Stories of character. (a) Individual: Humoresque, Fannie Hurst. The game of life and death, Lincoln Colcord. (b) Psychological: The belled buzzard, Irvin Cobb.--Stories of setting. (a) Local color: The conversion of Elviny, Helen R. Martin. Vlad's son, Konrad Bercovici. (b) Atmosphere: The yellow cat, Wilbur D. Steele.--Stories of theme: The buckpasser, Hugh McNair Kahler.--Stories of mood. (a) Love: Opus 43, no. 6, John Taintor Foote. The last room of all, Stephen French Whitman. (b) Humor: The fight that failed, Octovus Roy Cohen. "Little gentlemen," Booth Tarkington. (c) Fantasy, The night call, Henry Van Dyke. The toll-house, W.W. Jacobs.--Notes.--Bibliographical lists: History and criticism of the story.--Technique of the short story. Volumes of short stories.
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Stories of plot. (a) Dramatic incident: The red mark, John Russell. The Chink and the child, Thomas Burke. (b) Detective and mystery: The Doomdorf mystery, Melville Davisson Post. (c) Ingenuity and surprise: How it happened, A. Conan Doyle. (d) Problem: A jury of her peers, Susan Glaspell.--Stories of character. (a) Individual: Humoresque, Fannie Hurst. The game of life and death, Lincoln Colcord. (b) Psychological: The belled buzzard, Irvin Cobb.--Stories of setting. (a) Local color: The conversion of Elviny, Helen R. Martin. Vlad's son, Konrad Bercovici. (b) Atmosphere: The yellow cat, Wilbur D. Steele.--Stories of theme: The buckpasser, Hugh McNair Kahler.--Stories of mood. (a) Love: Opus 43, no. 6, John Taintor Foote. The last room of all, Stephen French Whitman. (b) Humor: The fight that failed, Octovus Roy Cohen. "Little gentlemen," Booth Tarkington. (c) Fantasy, The night call, Henry Van Dyke. The toll-house, W.W. Jacobs.--Notes.--Bibliographical lists: History and criticism of the story.--Technique of the short story. Volumes of short stories.

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