a prose narrative of shorter length than the novel, esp one that concentrates on a single theme
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short′ sto′ry,
short′-sto′ry, adj.
- Literaturea piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
- 1885–90
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'short story' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
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- Aiken
- Akutagawa
- Alarcón
- Aldrich
- Algren
- Anderson
- Andreyev
- Andrić
- Asturias
- Austin
- Aymé
- Babel
- Barrie
- Barthelme
- Bates
- Bierce
- Blackwood
- Borges
- Bowen
- Bowles
- Boyle
- Bradford
- Brown
- Bulgakov
- Burroughs
- Byatt
- Böll
- Calvino
- Camus
- Carver
- Cask of Amontillado, The
- Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The
- Cervantes
- Cheever
- Chekhov
- Chesnutt
- Cohen
- Conrad
- Cortázar
- Crane
- Dahl
- Daudet
- Derleth
- Dinesen
- Donn-Byrne
- Dunsany
- Elkin
- Faulkner
- Fedin