Short-stories

Short-stories or novels, much can be learned from the bad as well as the good, or at the very least, make one appreciate the time spent reading a good one versus a bad one. posted by pgenrestories at 9:49 AM

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Short-stories at all, and that they belong to a lower form of the art of fiction, in the department with the amplified anecdote.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Short-stories, as is shown by the enormous number of British Novels circulated among us; and in the second place, tales of the quiet, domestic kind, which form the staple of periodicals like 'All the Year

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

The writer of Short-stories must be concise, and compression, a vigorous compression, is essential.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

But the Short-story, being brief, does not need a love-interest to hold its parts together, and the writer of Short-stories has thus a greater freedom: he may do as he pleases; from him a love-tale is not expected.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

It may be remarked also that there is a certain likeness between _vers de société_ and Short-stories: for one thing, both seem easy and are hard to write.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Mr. Besant's "Case of Mr. Lucraft," and Mr. Hugh Conway's "Called Back" are Short-stories in conception, although they are without the compression which the Short-story requires.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Short-stories and Miss Woolson two before they attempted the more sustained flight of the full-fledged Novel.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

The critic began by assuming that the writer had said that Americans preferred Short-stories to Novels.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Though the Short-stories of the beginner may not be good, yet in the writing of Short-stories he shall learn how to tell a story, he shall discover by experience the elements of the art of fiction more readily and, above all, more quickly than if he had begun on a long and exhausting novel.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various