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Excerpt from The Plot of the Short Story: An Exhaustive Study, Both Synthetical and Analytical, With Copious Examples, Making the Work, a Practical Treatise, Revised to Include a Syllabus for Teachers
The present volume, and those to follow in the Authors' Handbook Series, endeavor merely to touch upon this profound and seri ous subject of the Modern Short Story, not so much with the idea of stemming the tide of careless endeavor, as of leading the way, in the hope that some of its great masters, both in execution and technique, may be moved to add their weight to a Reform that must result in an immediate betterment of a neg lected Art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
