# Short-story masterpieces, Vol. 1

Author: Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg), 1867-1946 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73621

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Short-story+masterpieces%2C+Vol.+1+Esenwein&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In zest, movement, and airy charm, in glittering style, precise characterization, and compressed vividness, the French short-story is unsurpassed. German writers have excelled in the fantastic and legendary tale; Russians, in both mysticism and in unrestrained naturalism; British, in those subtle moral distinctions which reveal character under crucial stress; Americans, more or less in all these phases; but no nation has ever developed a school of story-tellers who say so much in so few words, and, withal, say it so artistically and pungently as do the French.

## Chapters

- [VOLUME I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-masterpieces-vol-1-73621/chapters/2/index.md)
- [VOLUME I--FRENCH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-masterpieces-vol-1-73621/chapters/1/index.md)