The Story and Its Writer--Shorter Second Edition

This shorter edition of a best-selling short fiction anthology presents 55 stories by 49 major writers together with 28 related critical commentaries by many of the same writers. The extensive accompanying editorial material includes biographical and critical headnotes for each writer, a history of the short story, an introduction to the elements of the short story, an appendix on writing about the short story, and a glossary of literary terms.