The modern story : origins, background, affinities : Scott, Dickens, Hardy, Stevenson -- Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, James -- Bret Harte, Bierce, Frank Harris, Garland, Crane, O. Henry -- Kipling -- Jacobs, Wells, Conrad, Bennett, Saki, de la Mare -- Lawson -- Lawrence, Forster -- Moore, Joyce -- Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Anderson, Lardner, Aiken -- Fitzgerald, Hemingway -- Maugham, Aumonier -- Katherine Mansfield -- T.F. Powys, Coppard -- Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Caldwell -- Duncan Campbell Scott, Callaghan -- Corkery, McLaverty, O'Flaherty, O'Faolain, O'Connor -- Caradoc Evans, Davies -- Plomer, Stern, Pauline Smith -- O'Hara -- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen -- Bates -- Pritchett, Halward -- Sansom -- Wilson -- Thomas, Alun Lewis -- Lavin -- Welty, McCullers, Taylor, Flannery O'Connor -- Sargeson -- White -- Malamud -- Lessing, Gordimer, Jacobson -- Cheever, Updike -- Sillitoe -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Conclusion : Friel, O'Brien, Macintyre, Montague, Julia O'Faolain
