Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Anthologies

Authors: Various In Year : 1918

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

The Preliminaries
Buttercup-Night
Hepaticas
Possessing Prudence
The Glory-Box
The Spirit of the Herd
In the Pasha's Garden
Little Selves
The Failure
Business is Business
Nothing
A Moth of Peace
In No Strange Land
Little Brother
What Road Goeth He?
The Clearer Sight
The Garden of Memories
The Clearest Voice
The Marble Child
The One Left
The Legacy of Richard Hughes
Of Water and the Spirit
Mr. Squem
Introduction

This book, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, is a collection of 23 "modern short stories", written by various authors as follows: Cornelia A. P. Comer, Amy Wentworth Stone, Elizabeth Ashe, Dallas Lore Sharp, H. G. Dwight, Mary Lerner, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Henry Seidel Canby, Zephine Humphrey, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler, Madeleine Z. Doty, F. J. Louriet, Ernest Starr, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Sherwood, E. Nesbit, E. V. Lucas, Margaret Lynn, Margaret Prescott Montague, and Arthur Russell Taylor. This audio compilation begins with the stories themselves, each Section followed by the editor's Biographical and Interpretative Notes, and at the end of the collection, the book's lengthy Introduction is included for the benefit of scholars who may be interested in editor Charles Swain Thomas' detailed opinions on what makes a short story compelling and why women excel in this genre. (Summary by Michele Fry)