The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1: With Introductory EssaysFor our purpose, that of tracing the evolution of the English Short story, its history commences with the Gesta Romanorum. At the authorship of this collection of medieval tales, many guesses have been made. Nothing is known with certainty, it seems probable, however, judg ing from the idioms which occur, that it took its present form in England, about the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century, and thence passed to the Continent. The work is written in Latin, and was evidently compiled by a man in holy orders, for its guiding purpose is to edify. In this we can trace the in¿uence of Esop's beast-f ables, which were moral lessons drawn from the animal creation for the instruction of mankind. Every chapter of the Gesta Romanorum consists of a moral tale, SO much so that in many cases the application of the moral is as long as the tale itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.