Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
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Excerpt from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short StoriesFor helpful aid in the preparation of this volume, I am indebted to many English teachers, more particularly to Miss Anna Shaughnessy, of the English department in the Newton High School. Houghton Mitflin Company has generously granted me permission to use Mr. Husband's 'the Story of a coal-mine.' Mr. George B. Ives, expert critic and proof-reader, of the Atlantic Monthly staff, has read and revised the proofs. Most of all, however, I am indebted to Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, whose friendly counsel and literary acum...
Chapters (62)
- ATLANTIC NARRATIVES
- INTRODUCTION The Short Story
- ATLANTIC NARRATIVES THE PRELIMINARIES BY CORNELIA A. P. COMER
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- BUTTERCUP-NIGHT BY JOHN GALSWORTHY
- HEPATICAS BY ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
- I
- II
- III
- POSSESSING PRUDENCE BY AMY WENTWORTH STONE
- I
- II
- THE GLORY-BOX BY ELIZABETH ASHE
- I
- II
- III
- THE SPIRIT OF THE HERD[7] BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
- I
- II
- IN THE PASHA'S GARDEN A Stamboul Night's Entertainment BY H. G. DWIGHT
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- LITTLE SELVES BY MARY LERNER
- THE FAILURE BY CHARLES CALDWELL DOBIE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- BUSINESS IS BUSINESS BY HENRY SEIDEL CANBY
- I
- II
- NOTHING BY ZEPHINE HUMPHREY
- I
- II
- III
- A MOTH OF PEACE BY KATHARINE FULLERTON GEROULD
- IN NO STRANGE LAND BY KATHARINE BUTLER
- LITTLE BROTHER BY MADELEINE Z. DOTY
- WHAT ROAD GOETH HE? BY F. J. LOURIET
- THE CLEARER SIGHT BY ERNEST STARR
- THE GARDEN OF MEMORIES BY C. A. MERCER
- THE CLEAREST VOICE BY MARGARET SHERWOOD
- THE MARBLE CHILD BY E. NESBIT
- THE ONE LEFT BY E. V. LUCAS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE LEGACY OF RICHARD HUGHES BY MARGARET LYNN
- I
- II
- III
- OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT[8] BY MARGARET PRESCOTT MONTAGUE
- MR. SQUEM BY ARTHUR RUSSELL TAYLOR
- BIOGRAPHICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE NOTES
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