The best short stories of ... and the yearbook of the American short story
(Book)
Average Rating
Contributors
O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941 editor.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Physical Desc
volumes ; 20 cm
Status
Available
SWOCC Library - Main Stacks
PS648.S5 B4 1915
1 available
PS648.S5 B4 1915
1 available
SWOCC Library - Main Stacks
PS648.S5 B4 1916
1 available
PS648.S5 B4 1916
1 available
SWOCC Library - Main Stacks
PS648.S5 B4 1919
1 available
PS648.S5 B4 1919
1 available
Description
Loading Description...
Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1915 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1916 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1919 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1920 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1921 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1922 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1965 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1966 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1967 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1968 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1969 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1970 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1971 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1972 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1973 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1974 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1975 | Available |
| SWOCC Library - Main Stacks | PS648.S5 B4 1976 | Available |
Continued By
Best American short stories
Table of Contents
Best short stories of 1915. The water-hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt --
The wake / Donn Byrne --
Chautonville / Will Levington Comfort --
La derniere mobilisation / W.A. Dwiggins --
The citizen / James Francis Dwyer --
Whose dog-? / Frances Gregg --
Life / Ben Hecht --
T.B. / Fannie Hurst --
Mr. Eberdeen's house / Arthur Johnson --
Vengeance is mine / Virgil Jordan --
The weaver who clad the summer / Harris Merton Lyon --
Heart of youth / Walter J. Muilenburg --
The end of the path / Newbold Noyes --
The whale and the grasshopper / Seumas O'Brien --
In Berlin / Mary Boyle O'Reilly --
The waiting years / Katharine Metcalf Roof --
Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt --
The survivors / Elsie Singmaster --
The yellow cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The bounty-jumper / Mary Synon.
Best short stories of 1916. The sacrificial altar / Gertrude Atherton --
Miss Willett / Barry Benefield --
Supers / Frederick Booth --
Fog / Dana Burnet --
Ma's pretties / Francis Buzzell --
The great auk / Irvin S. Cobb --
The lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The silent infare / Armistead C. Gordon --
The cat of the cane-brake / Frederick Stuart --
Making port / Richard Matthews Hallet --
Ice water, pl-! / Fannie Hurst --
Little selves / Mary Lerner --
The sun chaser / Jeannette Marks --
At the end of the road / Walter J. Muilenburg --
The big stranger on Dorchester Heights / Albery Du Verney Pentz --
The menorah / Benjamin Rosenblatt --
Penance / Elsie Singmaster --
Feet of gold / Gordon Arthur Smith --
Down on their knees / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Half-past ten / Alice L. Tildesley.
Best short stories of 1917. The excursion / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
Onnie / Thomas Beer --
A cup of tea / Maxwell Struthers Burt --
Lonely places / Francis Buzzell --
Boys will be boys / Irvin S. Cobb --
Laughter / Charles Caldwell Dobie --
The emperor of Elam / H.G. Dwight --
The gay old dog / Edna Ferber --
The knight's move / Katharine Fullerton Gerould --
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
The bunker mouse / Frederick Stuart Greene --
Rainbow Pete / Richard Matthews Hallet --
Get ready the wreaths / Fannie Hurst --
The strange-looking man / Fanny Kemble Johnson --
The caller in the night / Burton Kline --
The interval / Vincent O'Sullivan --
"A certain rich man-" / Lawrence Perry --
The path of glory / Mary Brecht Pulver --
Ching, ching, Chinaman / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
None so blind / Mary Synon.
Best short stories of 1918. A simple act of piety / Achmed Abdullah --
Cruelties / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
Buster / Katharine Holland Brown --
The open window / Charles Caldwell Dobie --
Blind vision / Mary Mitchell Freedley --
Imagination / Gordon Hall Gerould --
In Maulmain fever-ward / George Gilbert --
The father's hand / G. Humphrey --
The visit of the master / Arthur Johnson --
In the open code : Burton Kline --
The willow walk / Sinclair Lewis --
The story Vinton heard at Mallorie / Katharine Prescott Moseley --
The toast to forty-five / William Dudley Pelley --
Extra men / Harrison Rhodes --
Solitaire / Fleta Campbell Springer --
The dark hour / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The bird of serbia / Julian Street --
At Isham's / Edward C. Venable --
De Vilmarte's luck / Mary Heaton Vorse --
The white battalion / Frances Gilchrist Wood.
Best short stories of 1919. The Kitchen Gods / G.F. Alsop --
An awakening / Sherwood Anderson --
Willum's Vanilla / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
A night among the horses / Djuna Barnes --
Long, long ago / Frederick Orin Bartlett --
Dishes / Agnes Mary Brownell --
The blood-red one / Maxwell Struthers Burt --
The wedding-jest / James Branch Cabell --
The wrists on the door / Horace Fish --
"Government goat" / Susan Glaspell --
The stone / Henry Goodman --
To the bitter end / Richard Matthews Hallet --
The meeker ritual / Joseph Hergesheimer --
The centenarian / Will E. Ingersoll --
Messengers / Calvin Johnston --
Mrs. Drainger's veil / Howard Mumford Jones --
Under a wine-glass / Ellen N. La Motte --
A thing of beauty / Elias Lieberman --
The other room / Mary Heaton Vorse --
"The fat of the land" / Anzia Yezierska.
Best short stories of 1920. The other woman / Sherwood Anderson --
Gargoyle / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
Ghitza / Konrad Bercovici --
The life of five points / Edna Clare Bryner --
The signal tower / Wadsworth Camp --
The parting genius / Helen Coale Crew --
Habakkuk / Katharine Fullerton Gerould --
The judgement of vulcan / Lee Foster Hartman --
The stick-in-the-muds / Rupert Hughes --
His job / Grace Sartwell Mason --
The rending / James Oppenheim --
The dummy-chucker / Arthur Somers Roche --
Butterflies / Rose Sidney --
The rotter / Fleta Campbell Springer --
Out of exile / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The three telegrams / Ethel Storm --
The roman bath / John T. Wheelwright --
Amazement / Stephen French Whitman --
Sheener / Ben Ames Williams --
Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood.
Best short stories of 1921. Brothers / Sherwood Anderson --
Fanutza / Konrad Bercovici --
Experiment / Maxwell Struthers Burt --
Darkness / Irvin S. Cobb --
An instrument of the gods / Lincoln Concord --
The lizard god / Charles J. Finger --
Under the dome / Waldo Frank --
French Eva / Katharine Fullerton Gerould --
The past / Ellen Glasgow --
His smile / Susan Glaspell --
The harbor master / Richard Matthews Hallet --
Green gardens / Frances Noyes Hart --
She walks in beauty / Fannie Hurst --
The little master of the sky / Manuel Komroff --
The man with the good face / Frank Luther --
Master of Fallen years / Vincent O'Sullivan --
The shame dance / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Kindred / Harriet Maxon Thayer --
Shelby / Charles Hanson Towne --
The wallow of the sea / Mary Heaton Vorse.
Best short stories of 1922. The dark city / Conrad Aiken --
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson --
The death of Murdo / Konrad Bercovivi --
An unknown warrior / Susan M. Boogher --
The helpless ones / Frederick Booth --
Forest cover / Edna Bryner --
Natalka's portion / Rose Gollup Cohen --
The shame of gold / Charles J. Finger --
Two for a cent / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
John the Baptist / Waldo Frank --
Mendel Marantz-Housewife / David Freedman --
Belshazzar's letter / Katharine Fullerton --
Winkelburg / Ben Hecht --
The token / Joseph Hergesheimer --
The resurrection and the life / William Jitro --
The golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner --
He laughed at the Gods / James Oppenheim --
In the metropolis / Benjamin Rosenblatt --
From the other side of the south / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The coffin / Clement Wood.
Best short stories of 1923. Way for a sailor / Bill Adams --
Man's story / Sherwood Anderson --
Mr. Cardeezer / Edwina Stanton Babcock --
Seed / Konrad Bercovici --
Beyond the cross / Dana Burnet --
Ignition / Valma Clark --
Chocolate hyena / Irvin S. Cobb --
Samovar / John Cournos --
Reina / Theodore Dreiser --
Home girl / Edna Ferber --
Button / Henry Goodman --
My old man / Ernest Hemenway --
Seven candles / Fannie Hurst --
Today tomorrow / Margaret Prescott Montague --
Contract of Corporal Twing / Solon K. Stewart --
By die process of law / F.J. Skinner --
Renters / Ruth Sukow --
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer --
Promise / Mary Heaton Vorse --
Flora and fauna / Harry Leon Wilson.
Best short stories of 1924. Champlin / Morgan Burke --
Billy / Mildred Cram --
Phantom adventure / Floyd Dell --
Cracked teapot / Charles Caldwell Dobie --
Last drive / Carlos Drake --
Adventures of Andrew Lang / Charles J. Finger --
Biography of Blade / Zona Gale --
Corputt / Tupper Greenwald --
Young men go down / Harry Hervey --
Lesser gift / Leonard L. Hess --
Grudges / Rupert Hughes --
Postscript to divorce / Gouverneur Morris --
Forgiveness / Lizette Woodworth Reese --
Nocturne: a red shawl / Roger Sergel --
Black laugh / A.B. Shiffrin --
Four generations / Ruth Sukow --
Two women and Hog-back Ridge / Melvin Van den Bark --
Poet / Warren L. Van Dine --
In a thicket / Glenway Wescott --
Shoes / Frances Gilchrist Wood.
Best short stories of 1925. Gift / Sandra Alexander --
Return / Sherwood Anderson --
Gertrude Donovan / Nathan Asch --
Guard of honor / Barry Benefield --
Beggar of Alcazar / Konrad Bercovici --
Laugh / Bella Cohen --
Hands of the enemy / Charles Caldwell Dobie --
City of refuge / Rudolph Fisher --
Army with banners / Katherine Fullerton --
Coward's castle / Walter Gilkyson --
How does it feel to be free? / Manuel Komroff --
Haircut / Ring Lardner --
Ill wind / Robert Robinson --
Old lady / Evelyn Scott --
Old Man Ledge / May Stanley --
Six dollars / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Home Town / Milton Waldman --
Fire and water / Glenway Wescott --
Devil drum / Barrett Willoughby --
Gideon's revenge / Elinor Wylie.
Best short stories of 1926. Carrie Snyder / Barry Benefield --
Maudie / Ada Jack Carver --
The glass eye of Throgmorton / Donald Corley --
Take the stand, please / Chester T. Crowell --
Bound for Rio Grande / A.E. Dingle --
Query / Henry W. Dudley --
Symphonesque / Arthur H. Fauset --
Evening / Zona Gale --
Wheels / Tupper Greenwald --
The undefeated / Ernest Hemingway --
The Christian bite / Manuel Komroff --
Then Christs fought hard / Milutin Krunich --
Travelogue / Ring W. Lardner --
The first stone / Grace S. Mason --
Grimaldi / Susan Meriwether --
Tale from the grave / Ira V. Morris, Jr. --
Extra! Extra! / Robert E. Sherwood --
Out of the wind / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The other road / Edward L. Strater --
The giants thunder / Virginia Tracy.
Best short stories of 1927. The Right Honorable the Strawberries / Owen Wister --
The killers / Ernest Hemingway --
Another wife / Sherwood Anderson --
Vienna roast / Harold W. Brecht --
Child of God / Roark Bradford --
Minstrels of the mist / Ben Lucien Burman --
Mademoiselle / Elisabeth Finley-Thomas --
Three lumps of sugar / Amory Hare --
Triall by armes / Joseph Hergesheimer --
The half pint flask / DuBose Heyward --
When it happens / James Hopper --
North is black / Oliver La Farge, 2nd --
Yarbwoman / Rose Wilder Lane --
Persephone / Meridel Le Sueur --
Good morning, Major / J.P. Marquand --
Cane River / Lyle Saxon --
The pawnshop / John S. Sexton --
Little Dombey / Frank Shay --
In Portofino / Alan Sullivan --
The hound-tuner of Callaway / Raymond Weeks.
Best short stories of 1928. The Guardeen angel / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan --
The cat that lived at the Ritz / Louis Bromfield --
Seven blocks apart / Katharine Brush --
A country passion / Morley Callaghan --
At the sign of the Three Daughters / Dorothy Canfield --
John of God, the water carrier / Maria Cristina Chambers --
No dam' Yankee / Irvin S. Cobb --
The first of Mr. Blue / Myles Connolly --
The swamper / Walter D. Edmonds --
Home to mother's / Eleanor E. Harris --
Lady Wipers
of Ypres /
Llewellyn Hughes --
Give this little girl a hand / Fannie Hurst --
Battered armor / Edward L. McKenna --
A telephone call / Dorothy Parker --
Fences / "L. Paul" --
On the mountain-side / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --
The Jew / Edwin Seaver --
The romantic sailor / James Stevens --
Midwestern primitive / Ruth Suckow --
So-long, oldtimer / Edmund Ware.
Best short stories of 1929. "Hound of heavan" / Sarah Addington --
Lost novel / Sherwood Anderson --
Country doctor / Ivan Beede --
"there's money in poetry / Konrad Bercovici --
Soldier Harmon / Morley Callaghan --
Double birthday / Willa Cather --
Wild plums / Grace S. Coates --
Death of red peril / Walter D. Edmonds --
First oboe / James W. Glover --
Fame for Mr. Beatty / James N. Hall --
Power of horizon / Leon S. Herald --
Azcantara / MacGregor Jenkins --
Manicure / Margaret Leech --
Potato picking / Robert McCarty --
I have letters for Marjorie / Edward L. McKenna --
Light without heat / Robert Mullen --
"Cunjur" / Pernet Patterson --
A guilty woman / Glenway Wescott --
Venus / William Carlos Williams.
Best short stories of 1930. Along a sandy road / Ellen Bishop --
Suffer little children / Clifford Bragdon --
Two men free / Whit Burnett --
Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan --
Way of the transgressor / Grace S. Coates --
Voice of the turtle / Edythe S. Draper --
Answer / Ruth P. Furniss --
Blue sky / Walter Gilkyson --
Summer dust / Caroline Gordon --
Adventure / Emily Hahn --
Happiness up the river / Harry Hartwick --
September sailing / Eleanor H. Kittredge --
Red coat for night / Manuel Komroff --
At the swamp / Janet Lewis --
Little wife / William March --
Cradle of civilization / Dorothy Parker --
White Pidgeon / Groverneur Paukling --
Patriot / William Polk --
Theft / Katherine Anne Porter --
Vineyard at Schloss Ramsburg / William H. Upson.
Best short stories of 1931. Enigma / Louis Adamic --
Sound that frost makes / Solon R. Barber --
Only we are barren / Alvah C. Bessie --
Rest cure / Kay Boyle --
Tabloid news / Louis Bromfield --
Day in the country / Whit Burnett --
Dorothy / Erskine Caldwell --
Young Priest / Morley Callaghan --
Water never hurt a man / Walter D. Edmonds --
That evening sun go down / William Faulkner --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
One with Shakespeare / Martha Foley --
Flaming chariot / Guy Gilpatric --
Fiddlers of moon mountain / Buy Gilpatric --
I hear you, Mr. and Mrs. Brown / Josephine Herbst --
Other side of the street / Paul Horgan --
Fifteen from Company K. / William March --
Other room / Don Marquis --
Pretty cute little stunt / George Milburn --
Here we are / Dorothy Parker --
Rhodes scholar / Allen Read --
Great hunter of the woods / James Stevens --
Model house / William Hazlett Upson --
Threshing ring / Leo L. Ward --
Miracle / Anne Elizabeth Wilson --
White Man's town / Lowry Charles Wimberly.
Best short stories of 1932. Foreigner / Bill Adams --
Horizon / Alvah C. Bessie --
Love's so many things / Clifford Bragdon --
Poisoner in Motley / Louis Brennan --
Sand / Wanda Burnett --
Sherrel / Whit Burnett --
Warm River / Erskine Caldwell --
Red hat / Morley Callaghan --
Honest wine merchant / Helena Lefroy Caperton --
Story of the stranger / John Cournos --
So tall the corn / David Cornel De Jong --
Hansel / Andra Diefenthaler --
Smoke / William Faulkner --
Napoleon's hat under glass / Manuel Komroff --
Spring story / Meridel Lesueur --
Arrival at Carthage / Scammon Lockwood --
Mist on the meadow / William March --
Heel, Toe, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 / George Milburn --
Kimono / Ira V. Morris --
Shepherd of the Lord / Peter Neagoe --
Load / Dudley Schnabel --
Gentleman in blue / Laurence Stallings --
Family chronicle / Bernhard Johann Tuting --
Untitled story / José Garcia Villa --
Quarrel / Leo L. Ward.
Best short stories of 1934. Winter meeting / Benjamin Appel --
No final word / Alvah C. Bessie --
The cats which cried / Whit Burnett --
Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --
Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks / Morley Callaghan --
The woman on the shore / Marquis W. Childs --
Amethyst / Edwin Corle --
Crossroads woman / Howard McKinley Corning --
Beyond / William Faulkner --
Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher --
She walks in beauty / Martha Foley --
My dead brother comes to America / Alexander Godin --
Tom Rivers / Caroline Gordon --
The broken wheel / Sirak Goryan --
Lord of Marutea / James Norman Hall --
Cora, unashamed / Langston Hughes --
Siege of love / Eugene Joffe --
Hamlet's dagger / Manuel Komroff --
Mother Tanner / John Lineaweaver --
Winter / Dorothy McCleary --
The pension / Louis Mamet --
This heavy load / William March --
Death and transfiguration / Alan Marshall --
The sacred thing / Paul Ryan --
In a park / Nahum Sabsay --
The hemlock tree / Vincent Sheean --
Now there is peace / Richard Sherman --
The immortal woman / Allen Tate --
Money at home / Upton Terrell --
Home is where you hang your childhood / Leane Zugsmith.
Best short stories of 1935. Outside Yuma / Benjamin Appel --
Overcoat / Sally Benson --
Party next door / Ernest Bruce --
Suns that our hearts harden / Carlton Brown --
Division / Whit Burnett --
Cold winter / Erskine Caldwell --
Father and son / Morley Callaghan --
Bus to Biarritz / Madelene Cole --
Triple jumps / Charles Cooke --
Home-coming / David C. DeJong --
Lo! / William Faulkner --
Wild nigger / Elma Godchaux --
Little white girl / Sara Haardt --
Remarks :none / William W. Haines --
Double house / Nancy Hale --
Distant harbour / Paul Horgan --
Sunday morning / Dorothy McCleary --
Parish of cockroaches / Vincent McHugh --
Episode from life / Louis Mamet --
Frozen stillness / Alfred Morang --
Mrs. Lancaster-Jones / Edita Morris --
Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan --
This town of Salamanca / Allan Seger --
A boxer: old / Harry Sylvester --
Souvenir of Arizona / Benedict Thielen --
Pair of shoes / Max White --
Sun and the rain / Thomas Wolfe.
Best short stories of 1936. In the cage / by Roger Burlingame --
The blue kimono / by Morley Callaghan --
The murder of Jefferson Street / by Dorothy Canfield --
The hunch / by A.H.Z. Carr --
Catafalque / by Charles Cooke --
The north wind doth blow / by Evan Coombes --
That will be fine / by William Faulkner --
That's what happened to me / by Michael Fessier --
Torrent of darkness / by S.S. Field --
The doorstop / by Roy Flannagan --
Her own sweet simplicity / by Martha Foley --
Enemy country / by Walter Gilkyson --
Two words are a story / by Elizabeth Hall --
With some gaiety and laughter / by Frank K. Kelly --
Tinkle and family take a ride / by Karlton Kelm --
That blowzy goddess Fame / by Manuel Komroff --
A kind of a sunset / by Erling Larsen --
Annunciation / by Meridel Le Sueur --
The shroud / by Dorothy McCleary --
Man on a road / by Albert Maltz --
The grave / by Katherine Anne Porter --
Thanks for nothing / by Roaldus Richmond --
Fugue for harmonica / by Allan Seager --
A life in the day of a writer / by Tess Slesinger --
Traveling salesman / by Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas --
The mustydines was ripe / by Howell Vines --
American nocturne / by Robert Whitehand --
On the sidewalk / by Calvin Williams --
The lone pioneer / by William E. Wilson --
Only the dead know Brooklyn / by Thomas Wolfe.
Best short stories of 1937. The man who won the war / by Robert Buckner --
The last equation / by Roger Burlingame --
The voyage out / by Morley Callaghan --
Enter Daisy / to her, Alexandra / by Charles Cooke --
Fool about a horse / by William Faulkner --
Goodbye to Cap'm John / by S.S. Field --
Glory, glory, hallelujah! / by Martha Foley --
Chains / by Elma Godchaux --
The poet / by Albert Halper --
The snows of Kilimanjaro / by Ernest Hemingway --
Homecoming / by Edward Harris Heth --
The surgeon and the nun / by Paul Horgan --
The girl with the flaxen hair / by Manuel Komroff --
Awakening and the destination / by David E. Krantz --
Second wife / by Harry Harrison Kroll --
The intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto / by R.H. Linn --
Titty's dead and Tatty weeps / by Ursula MacDougall --
Let nothing you dismay / By Allen McGinnis --
Maybe the sun will shine / by William March --
A blade of grass / by Edita Morris --
Marching orders / by I.V. Morris --
The Old Order / by Katherine Anne Porter --
A passenger to Bali / by Ellis St. Joseph --
The crusader / by William Saroyan --
Hair / by Jesse Stuart --
Lieutenant Pearson / by Benedict Theilen --
The Iron City / by Lovell Thompson --
Arrival on a holiday / by Wilson Wright --
Room in the world / by Leane Zugsmith.
Best short stories of 1938. Mr. Sycamore / Robert Ayre --
Blind man's buff / Libby Benedict --
Tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Mr. Mergenthwirker's lobblies / Nelson S. Bond --
Cheat's remorse / Morley Callaghan --
Brothers / John Cheever --
What hurts is that I was in a hurry / Vladimir Cherkasski --
Dear Mr. Fessheimer / Whitfield Cook --
Niggers are such liars / Richard Paulett Creyke --
Christ in concrete / Pietro di Donato --
Black wind and lightning / Michael Fessier --
Turkey hunt / Alberta Pierson Hannum --
Whole world is outside / Manuel Komroff --
Girl / Meridel Le Sueur --
She always wanted shoes / Don Ludlow --
Little bride / Dorothy McCleary --
Last meeting / William March --
To those who wait / Elick Moll --
Spaniard / Prudencia de Pereda --
Russian idyll / Frederick Prokosch --
Real American fellow / George Thorp Rayner --
Haunted palace / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --
Boy in the summer sun / Mark Schorer --
Pro arte / Allan Seager --
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
Huey, the engineer / Jesse Stuart --
Amateurs / Harvey B. Swados --
Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren --
Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty --
Off the highway / Ira Wolfert.
Best short stories of 1941. Shadow of a girl / E.B. Ashton --
All around the town / Stephen Benet --
Handy / Erskine Caldwell --
Big Jules / Morley Callaghan --
Net / Robert M. Coates --
Mamma is a lady / David C. DeJong --
To the least / Henry Exall --
Nun no more / John Fante --
Gold is not always / William Faulkner --
"Color trouble" / Harold Garfinkel --
Magic wire / Felicia Gizycka --
Smile for the man, dear / Justine Herman --
Life of the mind / Weldon Kees --
White bull / Mary King --
Some people are just plumb crazy / Arthur Kober --
Scorn and company / Christopher La Farge --
System was doomed / Meyer Levin --
Don't get me wrong / Roderick Lull --
Sunday morning on Twentieth street / Albert Malz --
Ill-winds from the wide world / Peter Neagoe --
Three swimmers and the educated grocer / William Saroyan --
Triumph of justice / Irwin Shaw --
Butcher / Wilma Shore --
Goin' to town / Wallace Stegner --
Love / Jesse Stuart --
Psychologist / Benedict Thieslen --
Houdini / Jerome Weidman --
Strip-tease / George Weller --
Almos' a man / Richard Wright.
Excerpt
Loading Excerpt...
Author Notes
Loading Author Notes...
More Details
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Additional Physical Form
Also issued online.
Issuing Body
Imprint varies: 1915-25, Boston, Small, Maynard & Company; 1926-32, New York, Dodd, Mead & Company.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Brien, E. J. 1. The best short stories of ... and the yearbook of the American short story . Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Houghton Mifflin Company.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Houghton Mifflin Company,
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.