![]() ![]() Elsewhere, short stories offer unfamiliar readers an opportunity to dip their toe into a writer's style, or else see a different side of them altogether: James Joyce, Carson McCullers and Ian McEwan, arguably best-known for their novels, can all be accessed in a different way through their short fiction. ![]() Many of history's finest novelists have tried their hand at the short story, and some are even best-known for their prowess in this form. Think of John Cheever, Katherine Mansfield and Tessa Hadley, all of whom appear on this list. That is the outrageous ambition of the short story, that is its deepest faith, that is the greatness of its smallness.” If it could find that word, if it could utter that syllable, the entire universe would blaze up out of it with a roar. “ the short story apologises for nothing. “The novel is the Wal-Mart, the Incredible Hulk, the jumbo jet of literature,” he wrote in his essay, The Ambition of the Short Story. ![]() The short story, says Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Steven Millhauser, has powers the novel only dreams of. ![]()
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