UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · CHILDREN
Frank R. Stockton
Also known as: Frank Richard Stockton, Frank Stockton
Maria Concepcion walked carefully, keeping to the middle of the white dusty road, where the maguey thorns and the treacherous curved spines of organ cactus had not gathered so profusely.
— from Short stories
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A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the Italian: novella for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term romance.
Short stories
For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows himself as much a master of the story as he is of the novel, in a volume that presents fifty stories, including two early collections - The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors - as well as more than two dozen new stories that have never been gathered together before. In his introduction, Mr. Price explains how, after the publication of his first two collections, he wrote no new stories for almost twenty years. "But once I needed - for unknown reasons in a new and radically altered life - to return to the story, it opened before me like a new chance...A collection like this then," he adds, "...will show a writer's pre-occupations in ways the novel severely rations (novels are partly made for that purpose - the release from self, long flights through the Other). John Keats's assertion that 'the excellence of every Art is its intensity' has served as a license and standard for me. From the start my stories were driven by heat - passion and mystery, often passion for the mystery I've found in particular rooms and spaces and the people they threaten or shelter - and my general aim is the transfer of a spell of keen witness, perceived by the reader as warranted in character and act.". There is, indeed, much for the reader to "witness" here of passion and mystery, of character and act. And the variety of stories - many of them set in Reynolds Price's native North Carolina, but a surprising number set in distant parts: Jerusalem in "An Early Christmas," the American Southwest in "Walking Lessons," and a number in Europe - will astonish even his most devoted readers. In short, The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price is as deeply rewarding a book as any he has yet published.
The Scribner treasury
ix · Introduction · J. G. E. Hopkins · in 3 · Madame Delphine · George W. Cable · na Scribner’s May-Jul, 1881 61 · The Lady, or the Tiger? · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Nov, 1882 71 · The Story of a New York House · Henry Cuyler Bunner · na Scribner’s Jan-May, 1887 141 · Free Joe and the Rest of the World · Joel Chandler Harris · ss The Century Nov, 1884 157 · The Burial of the Guns · Thomas Nelson Page · nv Scribner’s Apr, 1894 183 · The First Christmas Tree [“The Oak of Geismar”] · Henry Van Dyke · nv Scribner’s Dec, 1891 205 · Fishin’ Jimmy · Annie Trumbull Slosson · ss New Princeton Review, 1888 223 · The Trial of the Sandhill Stag · Ernest Thompson Seton · ss Scribner’s Aug, 1899 243 · The Bar Sinister · Richard Harding Davis · nv Scribner’s Mar ’02 275 · My Little Boy · Carl Ewald; trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · nv Oct 3 ’06 317 · The Perfect Tribute · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · ss Scribner’s Jul ’06 335 · A Knight of the Cumberland · John Fox, Jr. · na Scribner’s Sep-Nov ’06 391 · Madame de Treymes · Edith Wharton · na Scribner’s Aug ’06 445 · The Master of the Inn · Robert Herrick · nv Scribner’s Dec ’07 473 · The Consul · Richard Harding Davis · nv Scribner’s Dec ’10 495 · The Counsel Assigned · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · ss, 1912 511 · The Trawler · James Brendan Connolly · nv The American Magazine Mar ’09 535 · The Deserter · Richard Harding Davis · ss Metropolitan Magazine Sep ’16 551 · The Apple Tree · John Galsworthy · na Good Housekeeping Jan-Apr ’17 609 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan Jul ’22 629 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty Mar 28 ’25 643 · Farewell Miss Julie Logan · Sir James Barrie · na The Times Dec 24 ’31