Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Book of the Short Story
Tales, short narratives, usually of one episode, have existed of course since man first felt the need of tum ing actual or imagined happenings into words. Their development from the stories of the Egyptian papyri, or the fables of Pilpay, or whatever beginning one is pleased to take, has been that of narrative in general, and in each literary period before the nineteenth century the short.
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