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Excerpt from Short Stories of America: Edited With an Introductory Essay, Course Outline, and Reading Lists <p>Recent progress In the teaching of English composition and literature in our high schools and colleges has been marked by two tendencies: a rapidly increasing use of the short story, both in general English courses and in special courses in story-writing, and a discovery Of the possibility of uniting with mutual profit the study Of English composi tion and the study of American life and institutions. The present collection has been made in sympathy With both these tendencies. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.