β Scribed by Edgar Allan Poe et al.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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. Developments since the Second World War.
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