Washington Irving[Pg i] Washington Irving [Pg i] THE SHORT-STORY With Introduction and Notes BY W. PATTERSON ATKINSON, A.M. VICE-PRINCIPAL OF THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL JERSEY CITY ALLYN AND BACON Boston New York Chicago[Pg ii] COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ALLYN AND BACON. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. [Pg iii] [Pg ii] [Pg iii] FOREWORD This book is the result of actual work with first year High School pupils. Furthermore, the completed text has been tried out with them. Their difficulties, standards of reading, and the average development of their minds and taste have constantly been remembered. Whatever teaching quality the book may possess is due to their criticisms. Hearty thanks are due Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, and The Houghton Mifflin Company for gracious permission to use copyrighted material.[Pg v] [Pg v] CONTENTS Portraits of Authors Introduction I. Definition and Development II. Forms III. The Short-story as Narration IV. Representative Short-stories V. Bibliography Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842) The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838) The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878) Markheim (1885) Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie
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