Washington Irving[Pg i]

THE SHORT-STORY

WithIntroduction and Notes

BY

W. PATTERSON ATKINSON, A.M.

VICE-PRINCIPAL OF THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLJERSEY CITY

ALLYN AND BACON
Boston New York Chicago
[Pg ii]COPYRIGHT, 1916,
BY ALLYN AND BACON.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.[Pg iii]

FOREWORD

This book is the result of actual work with first year High Schoolpupils. Furthermore, the completed text has been tried out with them.Their difficulties, standards of reading, and the average development oftheir minds and taste have constantly been remembered. Whatever teachingquality the book may possess is due to their criticisms.

Hearty thanks are due Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. CharlesScribner's Sons, The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, and The Houghton MifflinCompany for gracious permission to use copyrighted material.[Pg v]

CONTENTS

Portraits of Authors

Introduction

I. Definition and Development

II. Forms

III. The Short-story as Narration

IV. Representative Short-stories

V. Bibliography

Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820)

Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842)

The Purloined Letter (1845)

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838)

The Birthmark (1843)

Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878)

Markheim (1885)

Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888)

Notes
[Pg vii]

LIST OF PORTRAITS

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