Excerpt from The Great Modern English Stories an Anthology Compiled and Edited: With an Introduction George Meredith's five short stories are each as long as the average novelette, and accordingly he is not represented in this collection, but they have the unity of the true short story, and in them there is a keen preoccupation with the subtleties of characterisation which was hitherto uncommon in the English, as opposed to the American, short story. I suppose his masterpiece in this genre is The Tale of Chloe, a ...
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Excerpt from The Great Modern English Stories an Anthology Compiled and Edited: With an Introduction George Meredith's five short stories are each as long as the average novelette, and accordingly he is not represented in this collection, but they have the unity of the true short story, and in them there is a keen preoccupation with the subtleties of characterisation which was hitherto uncommon in the English, as opposed to the American, short story. I suppose his masterpiece in this genre is The Tale of Chloe, a delicately woven study of place, idyllic in its portraiture, whose outward frailty conceals vigorous delineation and a poignancy deftly rendered by suggestion. Thomas Hardy brought to the short story a tragic irony in sharp contrast to the comic irony of Meredith. His method is relentless, and by economy of background, with spare strokes and broad outlines, he conveys a pressing sense of destiny brooding over man and his works and guiding them into inevitable courses. The best of his short stories are to be found in Wessex Tales and A Group of N 0616 Dames, and I have chosen as typically representa tive of his excellences The Three Strangers, the story which in my opinion is destined to live longest by reason of its classical structure, vivid contrasts, complete realisation of background, and sharp dramatic portraiture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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