short story
literary form which is shorter than a novel and is often characterized by a small number of characters and a unified theme | ||||
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short story
Noun
1. a prose narrative shorter than a novel
(hypernym) story
Noun
1. a prose narrative shorter than a novel
(hypernym) story
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Short story
The short story is a literary genre. It is usually fictional narrative prose and tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the modern sense of this term) and novels.
Short stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point. With the rise of the comparatively realistic novel, the short story evolved as a miniature, with some of its first perfectly independent examples in the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Anton Chekhov.
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