What is a short story? This 1913 study defines the genre, tracing the development of the English-language short story from medieval to modern times—accompanied by some stellar examples by Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling.

What is a short story? This 1913 study defines the genre, tracing the development of the English-language short story from medieval to modern times—accompanied by some stellar examples by Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling.

What is a short story? This 1913 study defines the genre, tracing the development of the English-language short story from medieval to modern times—accompanied by some stellar examples by Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling.