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Benson, J.J. (1991) New critical approaches to the short stories of Ernest Hemingway. Durham: Duke University Press. Available at: https://login.ezproxy.brunel.ac.uk/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822382348.
Benzel, K.N. and Hoberman, R. (2004) Trespassing boundaries: Virginia Woolf’s short fiction. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brunelu/detail.action?docID=308356.
Bloom, H. (2005) Short story writers and short stories. Broomall, Pa: Chelsea House. Available at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=96212&entityid=https://idp.brunel.ac.uk/entity.
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Cox, A. (2005) Writing short stories. London: Routledge. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brunelu/detail.action?docID=308501.
Daley, J. (2006) The world’s greatest short stories. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
Flora, J.M. (1989) Ernest Hemingway: a study of the short fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
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Lucke, M. (1999) Schaum’s quick guide to writing great short stories. London: McGraw-Hill.
Malcolm, C.A. and Malcolm, D. (1996) Jean Rhys: a study of the short fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers.
May, C.E. (1994) The new short story theories. Ohio: Ohio University Press.
May, C.E. (2002) The short story: the reality of artifice. New York: Routledge. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brunelu/detail.action?docID=1474897.
O’Connor, F. (2004) The lonely voice: a study of the short story. Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing.
O’Connor, F. (2014) Mystery & manners: occasional prose. Edited by S. Fitzgerald and R. Fitzgerald. London: Faber and Faber.
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Ross, D. (1961) The American Short Story. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Available at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?id=523076&entityid=https://idp.brunel.ac.uk/entity.
Sachs, M. (1969) The French short story in the nineteenth century: a critical anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shaw, V. (1983) The short story : a critical introduction. London: Longman. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brunelu/detail.action?docID=1746766.
Smith, A.J. and Mason, W.H. (1961) Short story study: a critical anthology. London: Edward Arnold.
Tallack, D. (1993) The nineteenth-century American short story: language, form and ideology. London, [England]: Routledge.
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