The Mid-Twentieth Century: 1920-1960 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Overview
Because storytelling is inherent in human nature, stories have
existed throughout history. For a long time, short fiction was
considered the poor relation of the novel. In the nineteenth century,
however, the short story and its longer relative, the novelette or
novella, were shaped as distinct art forms by Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, [The entire page is 17389 words long]
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