Since varieties of topics, themes and art, there are several types of short story. Some species are old stories, humor, satire, fantasy, biography, education, color and local history. Let us examine each of them in this article.

1. Ancient Tales

It is the power to use the old form of history in the modern short story. The Italian writer Giovanni Verga The She-Wolf (1880), Chinese writer and Yeh Shao-Chun Li is a woman of her remarkable examples.

2. Fantasy

Fantastic stories are nothing more than the beautiful combination of ancient tradition and history of the supernatural details. The stories are beautiful examples of these British writers John Collier’s Bottle Fantasy Horror Party (1939), Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover (1941), British writer Saki Tobermory (1911).

3. Humor

These types of stories resources for the production of surprise and joy. You’ll see the stories most famous cartoons and fables written by Americans. Mark Twain, the famous Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), and Joel Chandler Harris The Wonderful Tar Baby Story (1894) are remarkable. There is a deep feeling in the work of Americans such as Eudora Welty Petrified Man (1939) and Dorothy Parker’s The Heart Custard (1939).

4. Satire

The main purpose of satire is to treat the ills of society. There are writers who wrote satirical stories about sober. The Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, The fate of the Baron (1923), American and Mary McCarthy’s The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (1941) known for their dark satire.

5. Education Story

These stories revolve around education of the protagonist. The good example is the American educator Lionel Trilling time, place (1944).

6. History

Species with life history or a historical event. Welty’s A Still Moment (1943 story of naturalist John James Audubon) is a good example for dealing with the history of events history.

7. Local Color

The trouble with the customs and traditions of the rural and small towns. You can also use the local color in the stories of George Washington Cable, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman.

These are some ways you can find these kind of stories. Recently stories have different colors of local performance, using the familiar dialects and impressions. The story says, belonged to a certain flexibility in writing stories about how they want.

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