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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Writing of the Short Story, by Lewis Worthington Smith This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Writing of the Short Story Author: Lewis Worthington Smith Release Date: November 10, 2008 [EBook #27224] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WRITING OF THE SHORT STORY *** Produced by Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE WRITING OF THE SHORT STORY BY LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH, A.M. DRAKE UNIVERSITY, DES MOINES, IOWA D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY D. C. HEATH & CO. IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE PERMITTED TO ASSOCIATE WITH THIS LITTLE BOOK THE NAME OF MY FRIEND PROFESSOR L. A. SHERMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS In the author's classes the three stories in the volume entitled "Three Hundred Dollars" are first studied because of their simplicity, and these are followed by parts of "The Bonnie Brier Bush," and then by the stories from Bret Harte. Mrs. Phelps Ward's "Loveliness" is especially valuable for illustrating methods and devices for making a simple theme dramatically interesting. Students are required to mark stories with the symbols and discuss them with reference to the principles of which this little book is an exposition, but no recitation on the book itself is required. Perhaps one-third of the time in the class-room is spent in discussion of the short themes written by the class, and when convenient these are placed on the board before the class for that purpose. In the theme work following the suggested subjects the effort is made to confine instruction and practice to one thing at a time, but at the conclusion of the work of the term each member of the class is required to hand in a complete original story. THE WRITING OF THE SHORT STORY NARRATIVE FORMS =1. Elements of the Story.=--This little volume is meant to be a d
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