Frank R Stockton

Short-Stories Frank R Stockton

This collection of short stories are as varied as life itself. The aim of the short-story is always to present a cross-section of life in such a vivid manner that the importance of the incident becomes universal. Some short-stories are told with the definite end in view of telling a story for the sake of exploiting a plot. "The aim of a short-story is to produce a single narrative effect with the greatest economy of means that is consistent with the utmost emphasis."-Clayton Hamilton, Materials and Methods of Fiction. Contents: THE FATHER. 1860. Björnstjerne Björnson. THE GRIFFIN AND THE MINOR CANON. 1887. Frank R. Stockton. THE PIECE OF STRING. 1884. Guy de Maupassant. THE MAN WHO WAS. 1889. Rudyard Kipling. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. 1839. Edgar Allan Poe. THE GOLD-BUG. 1843. Edgar Allan Poe. THE BIRTHMARK. 1843. Nathaniel Hawthorne. ETHAN BRAND. 1848. Nathaniel Hawthorne. THE SIRE DE MALÉTROIT'S DOOR. 1878. Robert Louis Stevenson. MARKHEIM. 1884. Robert Louis Stevenson.