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Our Short Story Writers
Author: Blanche Colton Williams

CONTENTS CHAPTER I AGE AliceBrm . . . . . . . . . . . i 1 CHAPTER I1 James Branch Cabell . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER I11 c-Dmothy Canfield . . . . . . . . . 41 CHAPTER IV RobertW. Chambers . . . . . . . 55 CHAPTER V I IrvinShrmsburyCobb . . . . . . . . 73 CHAPTER V1 -.. Ja lesBrendanCo znol y . . . . . . 85 CHAPTER V11 Richard Harding Davis . . .... more » . . . SOS b CHAPTER V111 ---Margaret Wade Deland . . . . . . . 129 CHAPTER IX --EdmFerber . . . . 8 . . . . . . 146 CHAPTER X ,-Mary Wilkins Freeman . . . . . . . 160 b TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER XI . PAGE CHAPTER XI1 ...... William Sidney Porter 0. Henry 200 CHAPTER XI11 Joseph Hergesheimer . . . . . m e . e 223 I CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV . . . . . . . . . . f JackLondon. 256 , v CHAPTER XVI James Brander Matthews . . l . . . 278 CHAPTER XVII --Melville Davisson Post . . . . . . . . 293 CHAPTER XVIII hfary Roberts Rinehart . . . . . . . . 309 CHAPTER XIX 1300th Tarkington . . . . . . . . . 3 2 2 CHAPTER XX Edith Wzarton . . . . . l . 337 FOREWORD A T the risk of supererogation I desire to state emphatically that these twenty authors are only representative of our short story writers. T labor under no delusion that they are all we have 01 high rank, rather am I inclined to suspect that the first prospective reader will find his favorite story teller missing. Some of my own preferred stylists are conspicuously absent and, although for thc nost part I have included those whom within prescrloed limits I place first, I regretfully record the absentees. The short story is the literary medium that supersedes all others in America one small volume is a container too exiguous for even its chief authors. According to the dominant principle working throu lout the series of which this book is a unit, the writJi-s discussed should be living . or at least contemporary. If, by request of the publishers, Jack London and 0. Henry were to be replevined from the famous dead, I m7as of the opinion that Richard Harding Davis should not be omitted. Henry Jarnes, from a literary point of view, would precede any of these three. For reasons later B . f orthcorning, however, he is not among those present. The seventeen b FOREWORD living writers I have chosen on three counts sig nificance of work in time or theme or other respect weight or actual value of work, and quantity of work measured by the number of stories or story volumes. It happens that certain significant writers may have been left out because of their having turned, after one momentous contribution to the short story, to the novel, or for other reason having failed to produce a corpus of short story material. George W. Cables place in literature was established primarily through Old Creole Days but in the opinion of the present writer the niche he occupies is that of novelist. Octave Thanet one might rightly expect to find here. But only her first volume had been published when Ham lin Garlands Main-Travelled Roads appeared, and there were stronger arguments for his inclusion. Many recent writers have published in leading periodicals stories which have not yet found preservation between the covers of a book. There are enough of these writers alone to justify a volume of reviews. Her. ein are Alice Brown and Mary Wilkins Free man, interpreters of New England Irvin Cobb, humorist, Southerner and journalist successor to R. H. D...

ISBN-13: 9781408638583
ISBN-10: 1408638584
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 368
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