Table of Contents:
  • v.1. A characteristic mood. A view of the short story
  • the narrator and the mime. Medieval stories. Elizabethan profusion
  • euphuism and coney-catching. The character writers of the 17th century. The eighteenth century
  • the moral story enclosed in the essay. Short stories of the novelists
  • v. 2. New conceptions : Stevenson to Kipling. James, Conrad, and the place of the narrator. Edwardian wits : a change in preparation. Mansfield, James Joyce : short story writers between the wars. Three individualists.velopments since the Second World War.