Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer

This book presents a practical classification of prose narrative types, tracing essential forms and the specific problems a story writer faces without attempting exhaustive origin studies. It defines distinguishing features of various narrative kinds, supplies literary examples and student compositions to illustrate practice, and stresses classroom-tested principles rather than dogma. Organized to stimulate composition, the chapters combine concise analysis, illustrative passages, brief historical notes, and a selective bibliography to direct further reading. The work aims to orient novice writers, offer concrete exercises, and give teachers a compact, ready work-table resource for instructing narrative craft.