What is short story?

*A brief , imaginative narrative containing few characters ,simple plot , conflict,and suspense which leads to a climax and a swift conclusion.
* A short story is a brief ,imagina imag narrative , unfolding a single predominating incident and a single chief character ;it contains a plot ,the details of which are so organized ,as to produce a single impression.
*Rabindra nath Tagore's Barsayapan(Living with rain)
"Simple events of life ,happy or sad ,some sad from the strings from the train of forgetfulness not taught with heavy description ,not crowed with events ,no advice ,no philosophy ,only the feeling that the story is yet not over. Although there is no more to read.

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P.B Shelley

P.B Shelley:- Shelley was born in 1792 .In 1810 ,he was expelled from Oxford university for his pamphlet." The Necessity of Atheism" . He died in 1822 in Italy . His notable works are " Ode to the West Wind","To a skylarkS","Prometheus unbound" etc. The main theme of Shelley's poetry is freedom and love which are the solution of the evil world.

William Wordsworth

He was born in 1770 in English Lake district and educated in Cambridge.He had been profoundly influenced by French revolution. In 1795, he went to live with his sister,Dorothy ,his most faithful friend.Then he went to Somerset to be near of S.T Coleridge . The development of their friendship brought them to write a pile of poems called Lyrical Ballads,published in 1798. In 1805,he finished The prelude ,a long autobiographical poem of 14 books.

Difference between Novel and short story

NOVEL SHORT STORY 1.The novel tells 1.The short story tells a Whole life . fragment of a life. 2. The novel deals 2.The short story deals with many things. with a single thing. 3.The novel has 3. The short story has many plots ,themes. one and only plot and theme. 4. The novel has 4. The short story has climax plot. Often simple plot.

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