<Tab/>The modern short story is attributed to three main authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and Anton Chekhov. Each of these authors offered something different to the period, not only in a literary sense but also in a cultural sense. This happened because each came from a different country: Poe from U.S., Maupassant from France, and Chekhov from Russia. Although all three helped, Poe was the real originator.
<Tab/>Poe was born in Boston and his parents were traveling actors. From the very beginning, he admitted he was different than the world around h…
