Classic Mystery And Detective Stories

The short story is especially adapted to supplement our high-school reading. it has achieved high art, yet conforms to the modern demand that our literature since it must be read with dispatch, if read at all be compact and compelling. This series does not attempt to select the greatest stories of the time. What tribunal would dare make such a choice? Nor does it attempt to trace the evolution of the short story or to point out natural types and differences. Its object is threefold: to supply interesting reading belonging to the student's own time, to help him to see that there is no divorce between classic and modern literature, and, by offering him material structurally good and typical of the qualities represented, to assist him in discriminating between the artistic and the inartistic. The stories have been carefully selected, because in the period of adolescence "nothing read fails to leave its mark".