Excerpt from Modern Short-Stories: Edited With an Introduction and With Biographies and Bibliographies In the compiling of this volume, two purposes have been kept in mind. F irst, the aim of the editor has been to provide, for the general reader and for col lege students in particular, a group of modern short stories of intrinsic value, to be studied for their con tent and for their significance in relation to modern art. In other words, the book is intended to supply material for an agadernic or literary study of the short story. Secondly, and perhaps more directly, the vol ume is planned to furnish examples for analysis by classes in short-story writing. In'the broad sense, it is a collection of models that may be used as a basis for collegemours'es in narration. 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.