Index of Short Stories from
Edward J. O'Brien's
THE BEST SHORT STORIES (1915)


Abbreviations

A4      paper size, 297mm x 210mm
A5      paper size, 210mm x 148mm
ad      adaptation
ai      author's introduction to story
an      anthology
Apr     April
ar      article
Aug     August
Aut     Autumn
aw      afterword
bg      biography
bi      bibliographic material
br      book review
cl      column
cn      contest
co      collection of stories by one author
cr      criticism
cs      comic strip
ct      cartoon
Dec     December
digest  5" x 7½", square bound magazine
e/s     edge-stapled
ed      editorial
ex      extract
fa      facetious article
Feb     February
Fll     Fall/Autumn
fp      frontispiece
fw      foreword
ga      graphic anthology
gc      graphic collection
gm      gamebook
gn      graphic novel
gp      group of related stories
gr      game review
gs      graphic story
hc      hardcover
hu      humor
ia      illustrated article
ibc     inside back cover
ifc     inside front cover
il      illustration
in      introduction
ins     insert
is      introduction to story
iv      interview
ix      index
Jan     January
Jul     July
Jun     June
large   8½" x 11"
lk      linking material
lt      letter
Mar     March
May     May
mg      magazine
mr      movie review
ms      miscellaneous
mv      movie
n.      novel (over 100 pages, over 40,000 words)
na      novella (46-100 pages, 17,500-39,999 words)
nf      non-fiction
Nov     November
nv      novelette (21-45 pages, 7,500-17,499 words)
nw      newspaper
oa      original anthology
oc      original collection
Oct     October
octavo  5½" x 8½" saddle-stapled
om      omnibus edition
pb      paperback
ph      pamphlet/chapbook
pi      pictorial
pl      play
pm      poem
pp      prose poem
pr      preface
pt      photography
pulp    6½" x 9", pulp paper, square bound magazine
pz      puzzle
qp      quality paperback
quarto  8½" x 11" saddle-stapled
qz      quiz
rr      round-robin
s/b     square-bound
s/s     saddle-stapled
sa      story adaptation of a play/screenplay
Sep     September
sf      special feature
sg      song
si      section introduction
sl      serial segment
sp      speech
Spr     Spring
sr      story review
ss      short story (4-20 pages, 1,000-7,499 words)
standard  6½" x 9", slick paper, square bound magazine
Sum     Summer
sy      symposium
tb      tabloid
tc      title change
te      true experience
tp      trade paperback
tr      translation
ts      true story
U.K.    United Kingdom
U.S.    United States
uw      unfinished work
v       volume
vi      vignette (under 4 pages, under 1,000 words)
Win     Winter


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