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_bB353
100 _a Beachcroft, T. O.
245 _aThe modest art : a survey of the short story in English
_c/ T. O. Beachcroft
260 _aNew York
_bOxford University Press
_c1968
300 _avii, 286 p.
650 _aShort stories, American
650 _aShort stories, English
942 _cBK
505 0 _aThe 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