What Makes a Short Story?

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Feb 12, 201944:01Education

From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to Anton Chekhov many works, short story fiction has taken many forms since its rise to popularity in the 18th Century. Campion’s academics Thomas Flynn and Colin Dray come t...

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