Short Stories Old and New

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Short Stories Old and New Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso SmithThis 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 atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Short Stories Old and NewAuthor: Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso SmithRelease Date: December 17, 2003 [EBook #10483]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHORT STORIES OLD AND NEW ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Shon McCarley and PG Distributed ProofreadersSHORT STORIESOLD AND NEWSELECTED AND EDITEDBYC. ALPHONSO SMITHEDGAR ALLAN POE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, AUTHOR OF "THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY," ETC.1916INTRODUCTIONEvery short story has three parts, which may be called Setting or Background, Plot or Plan, and Characters or Character.If you are going to write a short story, as I hope you are, you will find it necessary to think through these three parts so asto relate them interestingly and naturally one to the other; and if you want to assimilate the best that is in the followingstories, you will do well to approach them by the same three routes.The Setting or Background gives us the time and the place of the story with such details of custom, scenery, and dialectas time and place imply. It answers the questions When? Where? The Plot tells us what ...