The Great English Short-Story Writers

by William J Dawson, Coningsby W Dawson

Overview

CONTENTS

I The Evolution of the Short-Storyn

II The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)

III The Mysterious Bride by James Hogg (1770-1835)

IV The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving (1783-1859)

V Dr Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864)

VI The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

VII Rab and His Friends by Dr. John Brown (1810-1882)

VIII The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

IX A Story of Seven Devils by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)

X A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain (1835)

XI The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte (1839-1902)

XII The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy (1840)

XIII Julia Bride by Henry James (1843)

XIV A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888303078
Publisher:	Bibliotech Press
Publication date:	01/09/2023
Pages:	194
Sales rank:	767,757
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

William J.Dawson Reverend William James Dawson, an English priest, speaker, and author, lived from 1854 until 1928. He was Coningsby Dawson's father. He was educated at Didsbury College in Manchester and Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset, where he was born on November 21, 1854, in Towcester, Northamptonshire. In 1875, he began serving in the Wesleyan church. He had three daughters and three boys after marrying Jane Powell in 1879. In 1887, he relocated to the John Wesley Church on City Road in London. Serving a poor parish in the south of London made him feel incredibly depressed. Coningsby W. Dawson Coningsby Dawson, a Canadian Field Artillery veteran and Anglo-American author, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, on February 26, 1883, and passed away on August 10, 1959. Dawson enrolled at Merton College in Oxford in 1902, graduating in 1905 with a second-class degree in modern history. He studied theology at Union Seminary for a year before deciding to become a writer. He travelled extensively at this time while working specifically on Canadian topics for English newspapers in America the same year. From 1906 until 1910, he resided in Taunton, Massachusetts, where he worked as the George H. Doran Publishing Company's literary consultant.