In his “Review of Twice Told Tales,” Edgar Allan Poe argues the superiority of the short story form. In doing so, Poe compares the short story to the poem and novel, speaking about the features of the short story which make it better than other...

In his article “Literature,” David M. Bethea explains how “the pagan concept of “mother Earth” and the Christian concept of “Holy Russia” … were telescoped again, made extension of each other. As a result, perhaps the greatest of all modern...