Home›Short Fiction and Fable›GenreBrowse ByGenreGenre sorts a literary work by the kind of story it tells. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel of manners" following Elizabeth Bennet's "character development," a genre built around social behavior rather than adventure or the supernatural. This dimension groups works that tell the same broad kind of story.FactsGenreSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1GenreFilter Results21 entriesAuthorAllAesop (1)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1)Anton Chekhov (1)Carlo Collodi (3)Charles Dickens (1)Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1)Clarice Lispector (1)Dimitris Lyacos (1)Ding Ling (1)Edgar Allan Poe (2)Ernest Hemingway (1)Franz Kafka (1)Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)George Orwell (3)Guy de Maupassant (1)Hans Christian Andersen (2)Herman Melville (1)Ibn al-Muqaffa (1)Isaac Bashevis Singer (1)Jacob Grimm (1)Jean de La Fontaine (1)Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel (2)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)Wilhelm Grimm (1)William Faulkner (1)Composition YearAll-300 (1)750 (1)800 (1)1050 (2)1063 (1)1668 (1)1812 (1)1835 (1)1837 (2)1839 (2)1841 (1)1842 (2)1843 (3)1844 (1)1853 (1)1864 (1)1865 (1)1872 (1)1881 (3)1883 (3)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 (2)1930 (1)1941 (1)1943 (1)1944 (1)1945 (3)1947 (2)1948 (1)1950 (1)1952 (1)1957 (1)1977 (1)1982 (1)1988 (1)Original LanguageAllAncient Greek (1)Arabic (1)Danish (2)English (9)French (3)German (2)Greek (1)Italian (4)Japanese (1)Latin (1)Pali (1)Portuguese (2)Romanian (2)Russian (2)Sanskrit (2)Sinitic (2)Spanish (3)Welsh (2)Yiddish (1)Country of OriginAllAbbasid Caliphate (1)Argentina (1)Austria-Hungary (1)Brazil (2)China (2)Costa Rica (2)Denmark (2)France (3)Germany (2)Greece (2)India (2)Italy (4)Japan (1)Russia (2)United Kingdom (7)United States (5)AudienceAllAdult (1)Children's (10)General (16)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (1)Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (3)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (4)Setting Country or PlaceAllBeijing (1)Venice (1)Defining TraitAllCharacter Focus (1)Form and Technique (5)Intended Readership (1)Mood and Effect (3)Purpose and Message (2)Setting and World (2)Subject Matter (2)Origin YearAll1764 (1)1800 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAdventure FictionGenre1 entryBeast FableGenre1 entryBildungsromanGenre1 entryChildren LiteratureGenre2 entriesComing-of-Age StoryGenre1 entryFableGenre5 entriesFairy TaleGenre4 entriesFantasyGenre3 entriesFrame StoryGenre1 entryGhost StoryGenre1 entryGothic FictionGenre1 entryHorror FictionGenre2 entriesLiterary DiaryGenre1 entryThe NovelGenre2 entriesPhilosophical FictionGenre1 entryRomanceGenre1 entrySatireGenre1 entryScience FantasyGenre1 entryShort FictionGenre24 entriesSouthern GothicGenre1 entryUtopian and Dystopian FictionGenre1 entrySources1. 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.