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The Best Short Stories of 1920

The Best Short Stories of 1920

Edward J. O'Brien

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The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title<br></th> <th>Author<br></th> <th>(Originally<br>Published In)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>The Other Woman</td> <td>Sherwood Anderson</td> <td>(The Little Review May-Jun 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gargoyle</td> <td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td> <td>(Harper’s Sep 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ghitza</td> <td>Konrad Bercovici</td> <td>(The Dial Feb 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Life of Five Points</td> <td>Edna Clare Bryner</td> <td>(The Dial 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Signal Tower</td> <td>Wadsworth Camp</td> <td>(Metropolitan Magazine May 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Parting Genius</td> <td>Helen Coale Crew</td> <td>(The Midland Jul 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Habakkuk</td> <td>Katharine Fullerton Gerould</td> <td>(Scribner’s Nov 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Judgment of Vulcan</td> <td>Lee Foster Hartman</td> <td>(Harper’s Mar 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Stick-in-the-Muds</td> <td>Rupert Hughes</td> <td>(Collier’s Sep 25 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>His Job</td> <td>Grace Sartwell Mason</td> <td>(Scribner’s Apr 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Rending</td> <td>James Oppenheim</td> <td>(The Dial Jul 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Dummy-Chucker</td> <td>Arthur Somers Roche</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Jun 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Butterflies</td> <td>Rose Sidney</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Sep 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Rotter</td> <td>Fleta Campbell Springer</td> <td>(Harper’s Jul 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Out of Exile</td> <td>Wilbur Daniel Steele</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Nov 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Three Telegrams</td> <td>Ethel Storm</td> <td>(Ladies Home Journal Oct 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Roman Bath</td> <td>John T. Wheelwright</td> <td>(Scribner’s Jan 1920)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Amazement</td> <td>Stephen French Whitman</td> <td>(Harper’s Oct 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sheener</td> <td>Ben Ames Williams</td> <td>(Collier’s Jul 10 1920)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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OL17038393W

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The Best [American] Short Stories [click to find all works in series]Short StoriesAmerican Short StoriesCanadian Short StoriesBibliographyAmerican FictionCanadian FictionAmericanaAnthologySeriesAnnual Series

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