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Types of the short story; selected stories with reading lists

by: Heydrick, Benjamin Alexander, 1871- editor

Publication date: 1913

Topics: Short story, Short stories, Short stories, Short story

Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman & Co

Collection: internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-14)

The tale: Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving. -- Story of dramatic incident: The ambitious guest, by N. Hawthorne. -- Story of local color: Namgay Doola, by R. Kipling. -- Love story: Two of them, by J. Barrie. -- Story of romantic adventures: The Sir De Maletroit's door, by R.L. Stevenson. -- Story of terror: The pit and the pendulum, by E.A. Poe. -- Story of the supernatural: The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain, by E. Bulwer-Lytton. -- Humorous story: My double and how he undid me, by E.E. Hale. -- Character sketch: Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly, by J.M. Berrie. -- Animal story: Moti Gij -- mutineer, by R. Kipling. -- Apologue: Doctor Heidegger's experiment, by N. Hawthorne. -- Story of ingenuity: The goldbug, by E.A. Poe. -- Psychological story: Markhelm, by R.L. Stevenson