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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

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Buttercup-Night

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)

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