Nov 25, 2025 · Short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. The short story is usually concerned with a single effect conveyed …

Nov 25, 2025 · Short story - Origins, Genres, Forms: The evolution of the short story first began before humans could write. To aid in constructing and memorizing tales, the early storyteller often relied on …

short story, Brief fictional prose narrative. It usually presents a single significant episode or scene involving a limited number of characters. The form encourages economy of setting and concise …

As long as people have told stories, there have been short works of prose—and occasionally poetic—fiction. Today such works are called short stories, and their modern form…

Nov 18, 2025 · short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. The short story is usually concerned with a single effect conveyed …

The short story was expanded into a novel in 1966. A science fiction exploration of topics such as human intelligence, intellectual disabilities, and romance, the novel is written exclusively as a series …

Nov 25, 2025 · In the United States, the short story, as in Germany, evolved in two strains. On the one hand there appeared the realistic story that sought objectively to deal with seemingly real places, …

Nov 21, 2025 · The Yellow Wallpaper, short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in New England Magazine in May 1892 and in book form in 1899. The Yellow Wallpaper, initially interpreted …

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, short story by Washington Irving, first published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” have been called the first …

John Cheever was an American short-story writer and novelist whose work describes, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class suburban America.