Arriving at Rousseau Manor in Paris, Claire Rousseau delightedly explores the city with her new friend Camille, who also lives at the manor and who tries to help Claire figure out why she has been sent away from her home in America.

Profiles more than thirty American short-story writers from the period 1880-1910, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Essays on American short-story writers published in the years between 1910 and the end of World War II, with a primary focus on the growth and popularity of works of fiction.