The House of Fiction
Gordon, Caroline / Tate, Allen
A good work of fiction, Caroline Gordon remarks in How to Read a Novel, is the competent fashioning of a story "out of the intangible, mysterious stuff of life." The House of Fiction, edited by Gordon and Allen Tate, is an anthology of short stories collected in the effusive light of that principle. Fiction is a craft, as such, they write, it has its "secrets of technique which not only appear in the works of all the masters of the craft but w...