Worldwide Appreciation of the Short Story Form Spans Cultures and Centuries!

In this concise volume, Gulnaz Fatma traces the short story from its origins in
fables, ancient poetry, and tales such as The Arabian Nights, to its modern form
in the early American stories of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, and then through
the twentieth century and throughout the world. The elements of what makes
a short story are presented along with a discussion of the difficulties in defining
the genre. The short storys relation to the novel as well as its uniqueness as its
own form are deftly...