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Table of Contents
- Transcriber's note.
- TYPES OF PROSE NARRATIVES
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF STORIES
- NARRATIVES OF FICTITIOUS EVENTS
- Myths
- Legends
- Fairy Tales
- Nursery Tales
- Fables
- Parables
- Allegories
- Tales of Mere Wonder
- Imaginary Voyages
- Tale of Scientific Discovery and Mechanical Invention
- Detective Story and Tale of Mere Plot
- Tales of More-or-Less Probable Adventure
- Society Stories
- Humorous Stories
- Occasional Stories
- Moral Story
- Pedagogical Narratives
- Stories of Present-Day Realism
- Psychological Weird Tales
- Stories That Emphasize Character and Environment
- Stories That Emphasize Character and Events
- NARRATIVES OF ACTUAL EVENTS
- Incidents
- Anecdotes
- Eye-Witness Accounts
- Tales of Actual Adventures
- Travellers' Sketches
- Journals and Diaries
- Autobiography and Memoirs
- Biographies
- Annals
- Chronicles
- NARRATIVES OF FICTITIOUS EVENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I THE PRIMITIVE-RELIGIOUS GROUP
- I. The Myth
- A List of Deities
- Egyptian Gods
- Hindoo Gods
- Russian Gods
- Finnish Mythology (derived from Kalevala)
- Norse Deities
- Filipino Deities
- The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen
- TRIBAL MYTH Origin of the Moon
- TRIBAL MYTH The First Cocoanut Tree and the Creation of Man
- ORIGINAL MYTH The Lotus
- II. The Legend
- Kenach's Little Woman
- A Legend of Gapan
- A Legend of the Incas
- The Place of the Red Grass: or, The Invasion of Pangasinan by the Ilocanos
- III. The Fairy Tale
- PARTIAL LIST OF FAIRIES, GOOD AND BAD, OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES:
- The Boggart
- Cafre and the Fisherman's Wife
- The Friendship of an Aswang and a Duende
- A Tianac Frightens Juan
- The Black Cloth of the Calumpang Tree
- IV. The Nursery Saga or Märchen
- Princess Helena the Fair
- Juan the Guesser
- The Shepherd Who Became King
- I. The Myth
- CHAPTER II THE SYMBOLIC-DIDACTIC GROUP
- I. The Fable
- RATIONAL, WITH THE ACTORS GODS AND MEN Jupiter and the Countryman
- NON-RATIONAL—INANIMATE OBJECT The Drop of Water
- POLITICAL SATIRE The Grandee at the Judgment-Seat
- BEAST FABLES The Lion and the Old Hare
- The Fox and the Crab
- RATIONAL, WITH THE ACTORS MEN The Fool Who Sells Wisdom
- ALMOST A PARABLE The Archer and the Trumpeter
- The Courtship of Sir Butterfly
- The Hat and the Shoes
- The Crocodile and the Peahen
- The Old Man, His Son, and His Grandson
- II. Parable
- The Three Questions
- A Master and His Servant
- The Parable of the Beggar and the Givers
- III. Allegory
- The Artist
- The House of Judgment
- The Chain That Binds
- The Love Which Surpassed All Other Loves
- I. The Fable
- CHAPTER III THE INGENIOUS-ASTONISHING GROUP
- I. The Tale of Mere Wonder
- Story of the City of Brass
- The Magic Ring, the Bird, and the Basket
- II. The Imaginary Voyage with a Satiric or Instructive Purpose
- Mellonta Tauta
- Busyong's Trip to Jupiter
- III. Tale of Scientific Discovery and Mechanical Invention
- The Curious Vehicle
- The Spyglass of the Past
- Up a Water-Spout
- IV. The Detective Story and Other Tales of Pure Plot
- Thou Art the Man
- The Picture of Lhasa
- I. The Tale of Mere Wonder
- CHAPTER IV THE ENTERTAINING GROUP
- I. The Tale of Probable Adventure
- A Fight with a Bear
- The Secret of the Jade Tlaloc
- II. The Society Story
- The Fur Coat
- The Lady in Pink
- III. The Humorous Story
- The Expatriation of Jonathan Taintor
- Kileto and the Physician
- A FILIPINO FABLEAU[6] The Lame Man and the Deaf Family
- IV. The Occasional Story
- The Lost Child
- The Peace of Yesterdays
- A Christmas Legend
- I. The Tale of Probable Adventure
- CHAPTER V THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP
- I. The Moral Story
- Jeannot and Colin
- II. The Pedagogical Narrative
- Gertrude's Method of Instruction
- Lawin-Lawinan
- III. The Story of Present Day Realism
- The Piece of String
- A Social Error
- The Lot of the Poor
- Filipino Fear.
- I. The Moral Story
- CHAPTER VI THE ARTISTIC GROUP: THE REAL SHORT-STORY
- I. The Psychological Weird Tale
- The Signal-Man
- "Like a Thief in the Night"
- II. The Story That Emphasizes Character and Environment.
- The Story of Muhammad Din
- The Fetters
- When Terry "Quit"
- Nora Titay and Chiquito
- III. The Story That Emphasizes Character and Events
- The Necklace
- Andong
- I. The Psychological Weird Tale
- CHAPTER VII PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS
- I. The Incident
- A Near Tragedy
- Birds Divulge Army Secrets
- An Incident Related In a Letter
- A Hero Dead
- My First Day at School
- The Guinatan Prize
- II. The Anecdote
- Coleridge's Retort
- An Inevitable Misfortune
- A Point Needing to Be Settled
- Patience
- Preaching and Practice
- Johnson's Dictionary
- The Boy Kipling
- Sir Godfrey Kneller
- The Capitan Municipal and the Jokers
- An Instance of Bamboo Spanish
- Mr. Taft's Mistake
- III. The Eye-Witness Account
- Story of the Revolution in the Portuguese Capital
- A Contrast
- IV. The Tale of Actual Adventure
- The Bear-Hunt
- Saladin and I Fight an Alupong
- I Get Two Beatings
- The Fall of Juan
- A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao
- V. The Traveler's Sketch
- "On the Way to Talavera"
- "Smyrna: First Glimpses of the East"
- A Trip from Currimao to Laoag
- I. The Incident
- CHAPTER VIII PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
- I. Journal and Diary
- Extracts from Diary of Samuel Pepys
- A Diary of Four Days
- "Something Doing"
- II. Autobiography and Memoirs
- The Life of David Hume, Esq., Written by Himself
- Autobiography
- What I Remember of the Coming of the Americans
- III. Biography
- Outline for a Life
- Queen Christina
- Joan Luna's Life
- Elizabeth Glade
- Biography of a Traitor
- I. Journal and Diary
- CHAPTER IX IMPERSONAL ACCOUNTS
- I. Annals
- The State of England in Stephen's Reign
- Annals of the Town of Mangaldan, 1879-1882
- Annals of Pagsanjan
- II. Chronicles
- CHRONICLE Rivalry Between Two Towns
- A Short History of Ilagan
- A TRUE RELATION Some Incidents of the Rebellion of 1898
- I. Annals
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF FICTION
- CHAPTER I. PRIMITIVE RELIGIOUS GROUP
- Myth
- Legend and Saga
- Fairy Tale and Nursery Saga
- CHAPTER II. SYMBOLIC-DIDACTIC GROUP
- Fable
- Parable
- Allegory
- CHAPTER III. INGENIOUS-ASTONISHING GROUP
- Tale of Mere Wonder
- Imaginary Voyage With a Satiric or Instructive Purpose
- Tale of Scientific Discovery and of Mechanical Invention
- The Detective Story and Other Tales of Mere Plot
- CHAPTER IV. THE ENTERTAINING GROUP
- Tale of Probable Adventure
- The Society Story
- The Humorous Story
- The Occasional Story
- CHAPTER V. THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP
- The Moral Story
- The Pedagogical Commentary and Story
- The Story of Present Day Realism
- CHAPTER VI. THE SHORT STORY
- Collections of Short Stories
- The Psychological Weird Tale
- Miscellaneous Short-Story Writers of Europe and America
- CHAPTER VII
- Incident
- Anecdote
- Eye-Witness Account
- Tale of Actual Adventure
- The Traveler's Sketch
- CHAPTER VIII
- Journal and Diary
- Autobiography and Memoirs
- Biography
- CHAPTER IX
- Notable Histories
- Annals
- Chronicles and True Relations
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
- Transcriber's Note
- Corrections
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