Chapter VI · THE SHORT STORY
Reading edition
Collections of Short Stories
Stories by American Authors, 10 vols. (Scribners).
Stories by English Authors, 9 vols. (Scribners).
Stories by Foreign Authors, containing works from the French, German, Italian, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, 10 vols. (Scribners). Tales from "Blackwood," 2 vols. (Tauchnitz). Masterpieces of Fiction, 8 vols. (Doubleday, Page). American Short Stories, edited by Charles S. Baldwin (Wampum Library of American Literature). A selection of the World's Greatest Short Stories, edited by Sherwin Cody (World's Best Series). The Short Story, by Brander Matthews (American Book Co.), contains twenty-three short stories. The Book of the Short Story, by Jessup and Canby (Appleton), contains eighteen representative examples. For bibliography of other collections of the short stories of the world, see lists at the ends of the chapters in Jessup and Canby.
The Psychological Weird Tale
E. A. Poe's Prose Tales, 3 vols. (Illustrated Sterling edition). The Odd Number Series contains Maupassant's Odd Number. Mary E. Wilkins' The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and other Stories of the Supernatural (1903); Irving's Tales of a Traveller, 2 vols. (A. B.); Modern Ghosts, edited by G. W. Curtis (Harpers, 1890).
Gothic Romance as Source. Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (C. N. L. No. 10); Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (C. N. L., No. 127); Mrs. Radcliffe's Italian, Romance of the Forest, and Mysteries of Udolpho (London, 1877); Lewis's The Monk (Phila., 1884); Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein (Routledge's Pocket Library). Peacock satirized the school of terror and other forms of romance in Nightmare Abbey (E. L.), and Crotchet Castle (C. N. L. No. 56).
Miscellaneous Short-Story Writers of Europe and America
SPAIN
Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891).
Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901).
Emilia Pardo-Bazán (b. 1851).
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870).
Vicente Blasco Ibañez (b. 1867).
Fernán Caballero (1796-1877).
Benito Pérez Galdós (b. 1845).
Antonio de Trueba (1819-1889).
Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano (b. 1824).
Armand Palacio Valdes (b. 1853).
Antonio Maré.
FRANCE
Edmond About (1828-1885).
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850).
Paul Bourget (b. 1852).
François Coppee (b. 1842).
Alphonse Daudet (b. 1840).
Gustav Droz (b. 1832).
Alexandre Dumas the Elder (1806-1870).
Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895).
Emile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890).
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).
Theophile Gautier (1811-1872).
Paul Margueritte (b. 1860).
Ludovic Halévy (b. 1834).
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893).
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870).
Alfred de Musset (1810-1851).
Eugene Marcel Prévost (b. 1862).
George Sand [pseud. of Mm. Dudevant] (1804-1876).
Julien Viaud ("Pierre Loti") (b. 1850).
Emile Zola (b. 1840).
GERMANY
Berthold Auerbach (1810-1882).
Rudolf Baumbach (b. 1840).
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1881).
Gustav Freytag (1816-1895).
Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827).
Paul Heyse (b. 1830).
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822).
Leopold Kompert [Austrian] (1822-1886).
Detlev von Liliencron (b. 1844).
Johann Karl August Musäus (1735-1787).
Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826-1886).
Theodor Storm (1817-1888).
Hermann Sudermann (b. 1857).
J. Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853).
Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771-1848).
RUSSIA
Alex. Bestiezheff (1797-1837).
Nicolai V. Gogol (1809-1852).
Alex. Poushkin (1802-1837).
A. Pyeshkoff ["Gorky"] (b. 1868).
A. P. Tchéhoff (1860-1904).
Lyof N. Tolstoi (1828-1910).
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883).
SCANDINAVIA
Björastjerne Björnson (b. 1832).
Juhani Aho.
Frederika Bremer (1801-1865).
Meyer Aaron Goldschmidt [Danish] (1819-1887).
Alex. Lange Kielland (b. 1849).
Selma Lagerlöf (b. 1858).
Hans Christian Andersen [Danish] (1805-1875).
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, UNITED STATES
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907).
James Matthew Barrie (b. 1860).
H. C. Bunner (1855-1896).
George W. Cable (b. 1844).
William Canton (b. 1845).
William Carleton (1794-1869).
Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain] (1835-1910).
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889).
Richard Harding Davis (b. 1864).
Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
A. Conan Doyle (b. 1859).
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849).
Edward Eggleston (1837-1902).
Mary Ann Evans [George Eliot] (1819-1880).
Hamlin Garland (b. 1860).
Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909).
Joel Chandler Harris (b. 1848).
Thomas Hardy (b. 1840).
Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902).
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
Anthony Hope Hawkins (b. 1863).
William Dean Howells (b. 1837).
Washington Irving (1783-1859).
Henry James (b. 1843).
Sarah Orne Jewett (b. 1849).
Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865).
Charles J. Lever (1806-1872).
Jack London (b. 1876).
Samuel Lover (1791-1868).
James Brander Matthews (b. 1852).
George Meredith (1828-1909).
Mary N. Murfree [Charles Egbert Craddock] (b. 1850).
Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862).
Thomas Nelson Page (b. 1853).
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Charles Reade (1814-1884).
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
F. Hopkinson Smith (b. 1838).
Frank B. Stockton (1834-1902).
Louise de la Ramée ["Ouida"] (d. 1909).
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1812-1896).
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1862).
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (b. 1844).
John Watson [Ian Maclaren] (1850-1907).
Edith Wharton (b. 1862).
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (b. 1862).