Home›Short Fiction and Fable›FormBrowse ByFormFactsFormSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1FormFilter Results4 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (1)Bildungsroman (1)Children Literature (1)Coming-of-Age Story (1)Fable (1)Fantasy (1)Frame Story (1)Gothic Fiction (1)Horror Fiction (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (1)Science Fantasy (1)Short Fiction (3)Southern Gothic (1)The Novel (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)AuthorAllAntoine de Saint-Exupéry (1)Anton Chekhov (1)Carlo Collodi (1)Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1)Clarice Lispector (1)Dimitris Lyacos (1)Edgar Allan Poe (1)Ernest Hemingway (2)Franz Kafka (1)Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)George Orwell (1)Guy de Maupassant (1)Herman Melville (1)Isaac Bashevis Singer (1)Jorge Luis Borges (1)Leo Tolstoy (1)Lu Xun (1)Nikolai Gogol (1)Nikolai Leskov (1)O. Henry (1)Paulo Coelho (1)Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1)Shirley Jackson (1)Sholem Aleichem (1)Somadeva (1)Stephen King (1)Thomas Mann (1)William Faulkner (1)Composition YearAll1063 (1)1835 (1)1839 (1)1841 (1)1842 (1)1843 (1)1853 (1)1864 (1)1865 (1)1872 (1)1881 (1)1883 (1)1884 (1)1892 (1)1894 (1)1898 (1)1899 (1)1905 (1)1906 (1)1912 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1918 (1)1919 (1)1922 (1)1927 (1)1930 (1)1941 (1)1943 (1)1944 (1)1945 (1)1948 (1)1950 (1)1952 (1)1957 (1)1977 (1)1982 (1)1988 (1)Original LanguageAllEnglish (2)French (2)German (2)Greek (1)Italian (1)Japanese (1)Portuguese (1)Romanian (2)Russian (2)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (1)Spanish (1)Yiddish (1)Country of OriginAllArgentina (1)Austria-Hungary (1)Brazil (1)China (1)France (2)Germany (2)Greece (1)India (1)Italy (1)Japan (1)Russia (2)United Kingdom (1)United States (2)AudienceAllChildren's (3)General (4)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (1)Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (1)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllVenice (1)ModeAllProse (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareThe Frame NarrativeForm1 entryThe NovelForm4 entriesThe NovellaForm8 entriesThe Short StoryForm21 entriesSources1. Short Story (Wikipedia)Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceQuote, Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceThe modern short story developed in the early 19th century.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.