Henry Seidel Canby

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1) A study of the short story

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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.

2) The Short Story in English

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Canby, Henry Seidel

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Beginning with the Middle Ages, this 1909 literary history considers all variations of the English-language short story: those told for instruction and pleasure, the writings of the heirs of Chaucer-John Lydgate and Thomas Occleve-the writings from the Renaissance, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and those of such modern masters as Poe, Hawthorne, Stevenson, and Kipling.