Excerpt from English Short Stories, Selected to Show the Development of the Short Story From the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century This volume does not contain any examples of stories in verse, but in a review, however cursory, of the origin and development of the short story, the student must pay some regard to the tale told in verse, at all events in the early period, when this medium was usually chosen. 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.