Excerpt from A Book of Short Stories Selected and Edited Harrison. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 8: Co. Vol. XVI, p. 82. See Prescott's Selections. Twice Told Tales and in the Philosophy of Composi tion, 1 have served as the starting point for all subsequent treatises on technique. It may be fairly maintained that he established standards for the Short story in prose, to which all subsequent writers have generally striven to con form. Let us enumerate the chief articles of Poe's doc trine - some of which, by the way, may be found in Aristotle's Poetics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.