GREAT SHORT STORIES OF THE WORLD (Set of 3 Vols.)

Book Summary of Great Short Stories Of The World (Set Of 3 Vols. ) ? The present collection marks an attempt to bring together outstanding examples of the short story as it has been prectised by writers of almost every race, from the earliest days of civilization down to the present century. Its purpose is not to show, by a series of texts chosen on academic grounds, how the form developed, but to bring together the best examples of every form by which men have endeavoured to entertain and instruct their fellows. No art is more spontaneous than that of the short story, also it is certain that stories of some sort were told as soon as man became articulate. The period covered in the present collection embraces nearly fine thousand years, but there can be no reasonable doubt that the Egyptian tales that opens the volume, the first of their kind known to us, are the finished products of an art that was practised thoudans of years before these were writeen.