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• Short fiction criticism; a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of stories and novelettes (American, British, Continental) 1800-1958 (A. Swallow, 1960), by Jarvis Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twentieth-century short story explication : interpretations, 1900-1960 inclusive, of short fiction since 1800 (Shoe String Press, 1961), by Warren S. Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short-story, medieval and modern : syllabus and bibliography (Univ. of California Press, 1915), by Walter Morris Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2014), by Florence Goyet (multiple formats with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003), by Susan Lohafer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Art and Business of Story Writing (New York: Macmillan, c1912), by Walter B. Pitkin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story-Writing (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1919), by J. Berg Esenwein and Mary D. Chambers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Elinor Glyn System of Writing (4 volumes; Auburn, NY: The Authors' Press, c1922), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to Write Short Stories (Cincinnati: The Writer's Digest, 1921), by L. Josephine Bridgart
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Letters on the Short Story, the Drama and Other Literary Topics (New York: Minton, Balch and Co., 1924), by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, ed. by Louis S. Friedland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plotting the Short Story: A Practical Exposition of Germ-Plots, What They are and Where to Find Them; The Structure and Development of the Plot; and the Relation of the Plot to the Story (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), by Seymour Cunningham Chunn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Short Story (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1916), by Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of the Short Story (New York: Baker and Taylor, c1900), by Charles Raymond Barrett (Gutenberg text)
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Today's Short Stories Analyzed: An Informal Encyclopedia of Short Story Art as Exemplified in Contemporary Magazine Fiction (New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1918), by Robert Wilson Neal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing the Short-Story: A Practical Handbook on the Rise, Structure, Writing, and Sale of the Modern Short-Story (New York: Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, c1909), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Writing the Short-Story: A Practical Handbook on the Rise, Structure, Writing, and Sale of the Modern Short-Story (New York: Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, c1918), by J. Berg Esenwein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Advance of the American Short Story (second edition; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1931), by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Short-Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development (New York: American Book Company, 1907), by Brander Matthews (HTML at Bartleby)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty problems of the fiction writer (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1929), by John Gallishaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of the short story art. (The Macmillan company, 1922), by Glenn Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of story-writing (The Home correspondence school, 1913), by J. Berg Esenwein and Mary D. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The development of the American short story : an historical survey. (Harper, 1923), by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story index; an index to 60,000 stories in 4,320 collections. (H.W. Wilson, 1953), by Dorothy E. Cook, Estelle A. Fidell, and Isabel Stevenson Monro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paul Bourget and the nouvelle. (King's Crown Press, 1948), by Walter Todd Secor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short story in English (H. Holt and Company, 1909), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aspects of the modern short story : English and American (University of London Press, 1924), by A. C. Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The contemporary short story, a practical manual (D.C. Heath & Co., 1916), by Harry Torsey Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the short story (H. Holt and Company, 1913), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of writing (The Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short story; a technical and literary study (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1914), by E. A. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story-writing, an art or a trade? (T. Seltzer, inc., 1923), by N. Bryllion Fagin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The only two ways to write a story (G.P. Putnam's, 1928), by John Gallishaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the short story (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by Carl H. Grabo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Types of the short story; selected stories with reading lists (Scott, Foresman, 1913), by Benjamin Alexander Heydrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of the short-story. (P. Smith, 1931), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories in the making; a writers' and students' introduction to the technique and practical composition of short stories, including an adaptation of the principles of the stage plot to short story writing (Oxford University Press, American Branch; [etc., etc.], 1914), by Robert Wilson Neal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern short story, a study of the form: its plot, structure, development and other requirements (A.S. Barnes Company, 1914), by Lucy Lilian Notestein and Waldo Hilary Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story writing. (Ronald Press, 1928), by Mary Burchard Orvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-writing; lessons from the masters (H. Holt and company, 1926), by F. M. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of narratives (D.C. Heath & co., 1917), by Oscar James Campbell and Richard Ashley Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short-story; specimens illustrating its development (American Book Company, 1907), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short story's mutations from Petronius to Paul Morand (B. W. Huebsch, inc., 1925), by Frances Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American short story; a study of the influence of locality in its development (The Editor, 1912), by Elias Lieberman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dance of the machines; the American short story and the industrial age. (Macaulay, 1929), by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story writing; a practical treatise on the art of the short story (The Baker and Taylor Co., 1900), by Charles Raymond Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studying the short-story; sixteen short-story classics, with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools (Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, inc., 1918), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The advance of the American short story (Dodd, Mead and company, 1923), by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weaving the short story (Farrar & Rinehart, inc., 1931), by Douglas Bement (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short story; a technical and literary study (A. C. McClurg & co., 1928), by E. A. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing the short-story; a practical handbook on the rise, structure, writing, and sale of the modern short-story (Hinds, Hayden & Eldridge, 1918), by Joseph Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of the short-story (Longmans, Green, and co., 1917), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short story (M. Secker, 1914), by Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art and the business of story writing (The Macmillan company, 1913), by Walter B. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writing of the short story (D.C. Heath & co., 1902), by Lewis Worthington Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notable short stories of today (Harper & brothers, 1929), by Edwin Van Berghen Knickerbocker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studying the short-story : sixteen short-story classics, with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools (Home Correspondence School, 1918), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative technique; a practical course in literary psychology (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923), by Thomas H. Uzzell and Walter B. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studying the short story (Doubleday, Page & co., 1926), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short-story technique (Houghton Mifflin company, 1929), by Stewart Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art in short story narration ... a practical treatise (The Stanhope-Dodge Pub. Co., 1913), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short story (M. Secker, 1914), by Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short-story, its principles and structure (The Macmillan Company; [etc., etc.], 1908), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short story writing; a practical treatise on the art of the short story (Doubleday, 1917), by Charles Raymond Barrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Writing the short-story; a practical handbook on the rise, structure, writing and sale of the modern short-story. (Noble and Noble, 1928), by Joseph Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of the short story (H. Holt and company, 1915), by Edward Everett Hale and Fredrick Thomas Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to write stories (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1923), by Walter B. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stories editors buy and why (Small, Maynard & Company, 1921), by Jean Wick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925), by Harry Christian Schweikert and Brace and Company Harcourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced problems of the fiction writer : a discussion of basic plot patterns (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931), by John Gallishaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le conteur américain, O. Henry et l'art de Maupassant. (Imprimerie Strasbourgeoise, 1925), by Crystal Ray Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Theorie des Witzes und der Novelle nach dem De sermone des Jovianus Pontanus; ein gesellschaftliches Ideal vom Ende des XV. Jahrhunderts (K.J. Trübner, 1908), by Ernst Walser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Creating the short story; a symposium-anthology with an introduction (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1929), by Henry Goodman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art and the business of story writing (The Macmillan company, 1922), by Walter B. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Gutzkow's short stories, a study in the technique of narration ([Urbana?, 1918), by Daniel Frederick Pasmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American short story; a study of the influence of locality in its development. (AMS Press, 1970), by Elias Lieberman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The short story. (Holt, 1902), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erzählungseingänge in der deutschen Literatur. (O. Schneider, 1913), by Fritz Leib (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook on story writing (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook on story writing (Dodd, Mead and company, 1919), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• What an editor wants, (The Author & Journalist, 1924), by Archie Herbert Bittner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive and narrative projects, a textbook for college classes (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1926), by Dora Wilhelmina Farrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to write a short story; an exposition of the technique of short fiction (The Editor company, 1911), by Leslie W. Quirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great modern short stories. (Center for Continuing Liberal Education, Pennsylvania State University, 1960), by Ralph Waterbury Condee and Pennsylvania State University. Center for Continuing Liberal Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The short-story, medieval and modern : syllabus and bibliography (Univ. of California Press, 1915), by Walter Morris Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Vorläufer der modernen Novelle im achtzehnten Jahrhundert : ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Litteraturgeschichte (M. Niemeyer, 1897), by Rudolf Fürst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of the short-story (Longmans, Green, 1901), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short-story, its principles and structure (The Macmillan company, 1907), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story composition (A. Flanagan, 1897), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studying the short-story; sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools (Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1912), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Short story writing; a practical treatise on the art of the short story. (Authors and Writers Union, 1898), by Charles Raymond Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of Bret Harte as a short story writer (1917), by Vera Elizabeth Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The relation of Rudyard Kipling's work to the accepted technical standards of the short story (1912), by Homer Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The plot of the short story : an exhaustive study, both synthetical and analytical, with copious examples, making the work a practical treatise (revised to include a syllabus for teachers) (Home Correspondence School, 1920), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plot of the short story; an exhaustive study, both synthetical and analytical, with copious examples, making the work a practical treatise (The Stanhope-Dodge Publishing Co., 1920), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Cent nouvelles nouvelles : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der französischen Novelle (W. Gronau, 1906), by Walther Küchler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Types of the short story : selected stories with reading lists : edited for school use (Scott, Foresman and Co., 1913), by Benjamin Alexander Heydrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story-tellers art : a guide to the elementary study of fiction : intended for high schools and academies (Ginn & Co., 1903), by Charity Dye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elective English courses of one semester in I. Short story, drama and magazine literature. II. Public speaking. III. History of English and American literature. Supplement to Course of study in English for the high schools of Oregon. 1923-1924. (State Printing Department, 1923), by Oregon. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to write stories. Books III-XIII. (Independent Corporation, 1921), by Walter B. Pitkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect and method in the short story (1913), by Walter L. Myers and State University of Iowa. Graduate College (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Earn as you learn writing (Saunders press, 1940), by Dorothy Banker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Writing the short-story : a practical handbook on the rise, structure, writing and sale of the modern short-story (Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1924), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panorama of the short story (D.C. Heath and company, 1929), by Blanche Colton Williams and Maxim Lieber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Writing the short story (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1934), by Edith Ronald Mirrielees (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to write fiction, especially the art of short story writing : a practical study of technique. (Bellairs, 1896), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of the short story art. (The Macmillan company, 1932), by Glenn Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Creative prose writing (Doubleday, Page & company, 1926), by Bernard Levi Jefferson and Harry Houston Peckham (page images at HathiTrust)
• English HS-16 : the development of the American short story (Charlottesville, Va., 1957), by University of Virginia. Home Study Bureau and Walter Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English HS-16 : the American short story. (Charlottesville, Va., 1950), by University of Virginia. Home Study Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English B6-III : the short story (Charlottesville, Va., 1945), by University of Virginia. Home Study Bureau, Archibald Bolling Shepperson, and William Peden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook on story writing (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of the short story in the South (Michie, 1911), by Robert Cecil Beale (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook on story writing. (Dodd, Mead and company, 1930), by Blanche Colton Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook for the study of the drama and the short story (The Palmer company, 1923), by Mabel Anstice Gannett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of the short-story (Longmans, Green, and co., 1912), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Making money by writing. (Fortuny's, 1939), by Walter N. Des Marais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The short story : how to write it : some hints on writing the short story. (London, 1926), by Patrick Braybrooke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook of short story writing (F.S. Crofts, 1936), by John T. Frederick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studying the short-story: Sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools., ed. by J. Berg Esenwein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade?, by N. Bryllion Fagin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Writing of the Short Story, by Lewis Worthington Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

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