title: Reading Stories, Grade 1 (Grade 1 Book 2)
author: Catherine Schwaller
description: Chris Cook is head of the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics. He is the author, editor, and/or compiler of many previous international political reference books, including Facts on File's Asian Political Almanac and The Making of Modern Africa. He lives in the U.K.
zlib_text: Schaum's Quick Guide
  
  to Writing Great
  
  Short Stories
  
  Other Books in Schaum's Quick Guide Series include: SCHAUM'S QUICK GUIDE TO
  BUSINESS FORMULAS
  
  SCHAUM'S QUICK GUIDE TO W R I T I N G GREAT ESSAYS
  
  SCHAUM'S QUICK GUIDE TO GREAT PRESENTATION SKILLS
  
  Schaum's Quick Guide
  
  to Writing Great
  
  Short Stories
  
  Margaret Lucke
  
  McGraw-Hill
  
  New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Auckland Bogota Caracas Lisbon London
  Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore
  
  Sydney Tokyo Toronto
  
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   **Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-067035 [ED-Insert correct** #]
  
  Lucke, Margaret.
  
  Schaum's quick guide to writing great short stories / Margaret Lucke.
  
  p. cm.
  
  Includes index.
  
  ISBN 0-07-039077-0
  
  1\. Short story-Technique. I. Title.
  
  PN3373.L77 1998
  
   **808.3'l-dc21 98-31510**
  
   **CIP**
  
  _McGraw-Hill_
  
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