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INTRODUCTION The short story in America, one frequently hears, has come of age. Surely the patronizing figure is an inadvertent slander, gloomily suggestive as it is of a phase in the life span, indicating as it does a triumphant survival over childhood diseases and adolescent perplexities, an...

INTRODUCTIONThe view is less frequently encountered today than formerly that a short story is (and, by implication, properly so) a condensed novel, a work that its author has for one cause or another failed to extend to a more imposing length. It is generally recognized, rather, that the short...