TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Beachcroft, T. O.
TI  - The modest art : a survey of the short story in English
U1  - 823.01 
PY  - 1968///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Short stories, English
N1  - The models  art: some problems; 
Antiquities: The parable, the ballad, and the mime; 
The return of the exile; 
Chaucer: a touchstone of truth; 
Some other medieval story teller: a moral in everything; 
The Elizabethans: through pleasures  and  palaces; 
The character books, and the story emerging from the essay;
Frank moralizing and Gothic  emotion;
Stories of poets and novelists; 
Stevenson and Hardy:  two on a tower;
American critics and Russian writers;
Kipling;
Edwardian developments: who is the Narrator?;
Katherine  Mansfield; 
The twenties and thirties;
Moods after two world wars;
The American point of view; 
Conclusion: the questions of values

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