Show Prodigal Son Parable Story Short-Story Masterpiece The short story has always existed ex cx- isted hated though It was not until the Nineteenth century that the art of writing It was consciously rac- rac As Sophocles said of Aeschylus these early authors of short stories did th the right thing without knowing why It was only on rare occasions however that these happy accidents occurred Thus Professor Baldwin after exhaustive exhaustive ex ex- ex examination of ot the tales In Boccaccio's decided that only two of them are short tales In the modern critical sense while three others approach the totality of impression which Is the result of conscious unity In ex er- We must go back to the I New Testament for a short story which Is a structural masterpiece I Tin The parable of the Prodigal Son which Is only words long In Inthe Inthe Inthe the authorized version erslon satisfies the modern definition securing the greatest emphasis possible with a surprising economy of means In America the short story had Its beginning be ginning In the Sketch ketch Book of Washington Irving |