Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells · English
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Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells · English
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I. One of the most amusing questions concerning the short story is why a form which is singly so attractive that every one likes to read a short story when he finds it alone is collectively so repellent as it is said to be. Before now I have imagined the case to be somewhat the same as that of a number of pleasant people who are most acceptable as separate householders, but who lose caste and cease to be desirable acquaintances when gathered into a boarding-house. Yet the case is not
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