The relationship of the short story to the novel amounts to nothing at all. The novel is a distinct form of art having a pedigree and practice of hardly more than a couple of hundred years; the short story, so far from being its offspring, is an ancient art originating in the folk tale, which was a thing of joy even before writing, not to mention printing, was invented.
A. E. Coppard, The Collected Tales Of A. E. Coppard, 1951
A. E. Coppard, The Collected Tales Of A. E. Coppard, 1951
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