Beachcroft, T. O. <br/><br/>
The modest art : a survey of the short story in English 
/ T. O. Beachcroft 
 - New York  Oxford University Press  1968 
 - vii, 286 p.  
<br/><br/>The models  art: some problems; <br/>Antiquities: The parable, the ballad, and the mime; <br/>The return of the exile; <br/>Chaucer: a touchstone of truth; <br/>Some other medieval story teller: a moral in everything; <br/>The Elizabethans: through pleasures  and  palaces; <br/>The character books, and the story emerging from the essay;<br/>Frank moralizing and Gothic  emotion;<br/>Stories of poets and novelists; <br/>Stevenson and Hardy:  two on a tower;<br/>American critics and Russian writers;<br/>Kipling;<br/>Edwardian developments: who is the Narrator?;<br/>Katherine  Mansfield; <br/>The twenties and thirties;<br/>Moods after two world wars;<br/>The American point of view; <br/>Conclusion: the questions of values <br/> 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American<br/>Short stories, English
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.01  / B353