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Short Fiction

A short story is the form a writer uses when a single effect is the whole point. It does in twenty pages what a novel needs three hundred for and what a...

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A short story is the form a writer uses when a single effect is the whole point. It does in twenty pages what a novel needs three hundred for and what a poem refuses to do at all. Key sections include: Short Fiction.; Opening What a short story is.; Chapter I Before the modern story.; Chapter II Edgar Allan Poe.; Chapter III Hawthorne.; Chapter IV Maupassant.; Chapter V Chekhov.; Chapter VI Dubliners.; Chapter VII British modernist short story.; Chapter VIII Hemingway and the iceberg..

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  1. 01Short Fiction.
  2. 02Opening What a short story is.
  3. 03Chapter I Before the modern story.
  4. 04Chapter II Edgar Allan Poe.
  5. 05Chapter III Hawthorne.
  6. 06Chapter IV Maupassant.
  7. 07Chapter V Chekhov.
  8. 08Chapter VI Dubliners.
  9. 09Chapter VII British modernist short story.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Hemingway and the iceberg.
  11. 11Chapter IX Borges.
  12. 12Chapter X Cortázar.
  13. 13Chapter XI Flannery O'Connor.
  14. 14Chapter XII The New Yorker era.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Carver.
  16. 16Chapter XIV Munro.
  17. 17Chapter XV The contemporary American story.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Beyond English.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The middle ground.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII How a story is built.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Thirty stories.
  22. 22Chapter XX Where to read.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Critics worth reading.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Watch & read.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Why read short fiction.
  26. 26The end of the deck.
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