The Short-story by Atkinson, Harte, Hawthorne, Irving, Kipling, Poe, and Stevenson

Contents include: 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 Maletroit's Door (1878), Markheim (1885) and Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888).