Short story

1805

Great novelists like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens also wrote short stories. One of the earliest short stories in the United States was Charles Brockden Brown's "Somnambulism" from 1805.

1810

In "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) Poe argued that a literary work (short story) should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting. In Germany, the first collection of short stories was by Heinrich von Kleist in 1810 and 1811.

1811

In "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) Poe argued that a literary work (short story) should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting. In Germany, the first collection of short stories was by Heinrich von Kleist in 1810 and 1811.

1812

The Brothers Grimm published their first volume of collected fairy tales in 1812.

1820

John Neal aided in developing the genre between the late 1820s and the mid 1830s with tales like "Otter-Bag, the Oneida Chief" (1829) and "David Whicher," (1832), though he continued publishing short stories through the mid 1840s.

1830

John Neal aided in developing the genre between the late 1820s and the mid 1830s with tales like "Otter-Bag, the Oneida Chief" (1829) and "David Whicher," (1832), though he continued publishing short stories through the mid 1840s.

1832

Edgar Allan Poe wrote his tales of mystery and imagination between 1832 and 1849.

1837

Nathaniel Hawthorne published the first part of his Twice-Told Tales in 1837.

1840

John Neal aided in developing the genre between the late 1820s and the mid 1830s with tales like "Otter-Bag, the Oneida Chief" (1829) and "David Whicher," (1832), though he continued publishing short stories through the mid 1840s.

1849

Edgar Allan Poe wrote his tales of mystery and imagination between 1832 and 1849.

1856

He is best known for his renowned, "The Country of the Blind" (1904). In the United States, Herman Melville published his story collection The Piazza Tales in 1856.

1860

Nikolai Leskov created his first short stories in the 1860s.

1880

Wells wrote his first science fiction stories in the 1880s.

He composed short stories, "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat", 1880) and "L'Inutile Beauté" ("The Useless Beauty", 1890) are good examples of French realism. In Russia, Ivan Turgenev gained recognition with his story collection A Sportsman's Sketches.

1884

In 1884, Brander Matthews, the first American professor of dramatic literature, published The Philosophy of the Short-Story.

1888

In 1888 he wrote, "A Legend of Old Egypt". The Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis was the most important short story writer from his country at the time, under influences (among others) of Xavier de Maistre, Laurence Sterne, Guy de Maupassant.

1890

In the 1890s, Kate Chopin published short stories in several magazines. The most prolific French author of short stories was Guy de Maupassant.

He composed short stories, "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat", 1880) and "L'Inutile Beauté" ("The Useless Beauty", 1890) are good examples of French realism. In Russia, Ivan Turgenev gained recognition with his story collection A Sportsman's Sketches.

1892

In 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle brought the detective story to a new height with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

1948

An example is Jorge Luis Borges, who won American fame with "The Garden of Forking Paths", published in the August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.




All text is taken from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .

Page generated on 2021-08-05