Short story -- Technique
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How to Study "The Best Short Stories": An Analysis of Edward J. O'Brien's Annual Volumes of the Best Short Stories of the Year, Prepared for the Use of Writers and Other Students of the Short-Story (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1919), by Blanche Colton Williams (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 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Robert Wilson Neal
- How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
- How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Short story- 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)
- The Art and Business of Story Writing (New York: Macmillan, c1912), by Walter B. Pitkin
- The Art of Story-Writing (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1919), by J. Berg Esenwein and Mary D. Chambers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- How to Write a Short Story: An Exposition of the Technique of Short Fiction (New York: Editor Pub. Co., 1906), by Leslie W. Quirk (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 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Robert Wilson Neal
- How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
- How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Contemporary Short Story: A Practical Manual (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1916), by Harry Torsey Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Paul Dawson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Social Minds in the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Alan Palmer (PDF at Ohio State)
- Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- How to Write Stories That Sell (Boston: The Writer, c1961), by Edward S. Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
- Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)
- How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Richard Walsh (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gerald Monsman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Randolph Runyon (PDF at Ohio State)
- Fundamentals of Fiction Writing (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
- Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ellen D. Finkelpearl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Michael M. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
- In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by John A. Dussinger (PDF at Ohio State)
- This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
- How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
- How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
- How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mrs. Radcliffe: Her Relation Towards Romanticism; With an Appendix on the Novels Falsely Ascribed to Her (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926), by Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten (page images at delpher.nl)
- The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Technique of the Mystery Story, by Carolyn Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
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