Index of Short Stories from
Edward J. O'Brien's
THE BEST SHORT STORIES (1915 - 1917)

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Lecture • Paula Jakobi • (ss)
• Leda and the Swan • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Leezie, The City Slicker • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Left Behind • Irving A. Bacheller • (ss)
• The Left Hind Tail • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Left Out Girl • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• The Legacy • Richard Barry • (ss)
• The Legacy • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• The Legacy of Monsieur Poivrot • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Legal Mind • Newton A. Fuessle • (ss)
• A Legend • Alexander I. Kuprin • (sl)
• The Legend of ’Frisco Bar • Julian Rothery • (ss)
• Legs • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• The Leisure Class • Edwin Björkman • (ss)
• Lemon Blossoms • Frank Condon • (ss)
• The Lemon in the Game • Edna Tucker Muth • (ss)
• The Lemon Seed • Robert Rudd Whiting • (ss)
• Lempke • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• Lend Me Your Ears • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• The Leopard of the Sea • H. G. Dwight • (ss)
• The Leper • Charles Gorham Barney, Jr. • (ss)
• Leslie’s Friend • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• Let Nothing You Dismay • Sylvia Chatfield Bates • (ss)
• Let Nothing You Dismay! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell • (ss)
• Letitia • Gordon Arthur Smith • (ss)
• Let’s See What Happens Next! • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• The Letter • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Letter of the Law • Evelyn N. Cornish & Reynelle G. E. Cornish • (ss)
• A Letter to Nowhere • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• Letting Peabody In • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Letting Ripley Write the Tags • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• “The Levee Holds!” • Raymond S. Spears • (ss)
• Leveling with Elisha • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Leviathan • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The Liar • Elizabeth Frazer • (ss)
• The Liar • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Liar • Will Irwin • (ss)
• The Liberator • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Lieutenant Crumley—Idler • Elizabeth Jordan • (ss)
• Life • Ben Hecht • (ss)
• A Life and a Ship • Lincoln Colcord • (ss)
• The Life Belt • T. D. Pendleton • (ss)
• The Life Clinic • Mina Kalland • (ss)
• A Life for a Life • Marion Pugh Read • (ss)
• A Life Job • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• The Life of Nash Nicklin • Enoch Arnold Bennett • (ss)
• Life Pulls the Strings • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• The Lifting of the Burden • Edith Rickert • (ss)
• Light Breakfast • Lawton Mackall • (ss)
• Light from the Holy Hill • Sylvia Chatfield Bates • (ss)
• Light in Darkness • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Light in the Valley • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• The Light in the Window • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Light of Other Days • Amelia Josephine Burr • (ss)
• The Light That Burned All Night • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• The Light to Leeward • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Like Argus of the Ancient Time • Jack London • (ss)
• Like Michael • H. G. Dwight • (ss)
• “Like the Book” • Berthe Knatvold Mellett • (ss)
• The Lilac Lady • Edith Rickert • (ss)
• Lilium Giganteum • Dan Boyes • (ss)
• Lily Johnson’s Man • Claudine M. Hartt • (ss)
• A Lily of the Field • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• The Lion and the Countess • Austin Gill • (ss)
• The Lion Light • Elia Wilkinson Peattie • (ss)
• The Lion’s Eyes • Herbert D. Ward • (ss)
• Listmann’s Jess and the Gentle Hand • Harold Titus • (nv)
• Lit Up • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• A Literary Accident • Zephine Humphrey • (ss)
• The Little Anna from Poland • Avery Abbott • (ss)
• The Little Blue Flower • Marie Louise Van Saanen • (ss)
• The Little Boy Makes It Through • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• The Little Boy of Panther Mountain • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• The Little Bronze Shoes • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• The Little Brother • Leo Crane • (ss)
• The Little Brown Mouse • Coningsby Dawson • (ss)
• The Little Captain • Harold Wolcott Dunning • (ss)
• The Little Cards • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• “A Little Child” • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• A Little Cloud • James Joyce • (ss)
• A Little Dabble in Iniquity • Elsie Morris Underhill • (ss)
• Little Engelbert • Karl Neurath • (ss)
• The Little Fear • Leo Crane • (ss)
• The Little Fiddler of Amen Island • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Little Finger of the Colberts • George Kibbe Turner • (ss)
• A Little Flier in Culture • Jessie S. Miner • (ss)
• A Little Folding of the Hands • Hannah Abert • (ss)
• The Little General • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• A Little Gleam of Light • Cosmo Hamilton • (ss)
• The Little Gold Curl • Margaret Widdemer • (ss)
• The Little Gray Goose • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• Little Hacks of Kindness • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Little Hunchback Zia • Frances Hodgson Burnett • (ss)
• The Little Injun • Lowell Otus Reese • (ss)
• Little Jesus • Marjorie Benton Cooke • (ss)
• A Little Matter of Discipline • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• A Little Milk • Nina Wilcox Putnam • (ss)
• A Little More Capital • George Kibbe Turner • (ss)
• A Little Mother • Florence Gilmore • (ss)
• A Little Nipper o’ Hide-an’-Seek Harbor • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• Little Old New York • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Little Pig Pork • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• Little Poison Ivy • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• A Little Pressure • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• Little Prince • Frazier Hunt • (ss)
• Little Red Decides • William M. McCoy • (ss)
• The Little Red Doctor of Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• Little Selves • Mary Lerner • (ss)
• The Little Sign for Friend • Margaret Prescott Montague • (ss)
• Little Sister • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Little Son • Robert McDonald • (ss)
• Little Son of a Gun • William Dudley Pelley • (ss)
• A Little Sugar • C. S. Watts • (ss)
• Little Sully’s Double Play • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Little Sunbeam • George Pattullo • (ss)
• A Little Taste of Business • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Little Town • J. D. Beresford • (ss)
• Little Tragedies • Louis H. Levin • (ss)
• A Little Tragedy at Coocoocache • George T. Marsh • (ss)
• The Littlest Scout • Marjorie Benton Cooke • (ss)
• Live and Let Live! • Peter Clark MacFarlane • (ss)
• Lo, the Poor Piute • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Lobster Salad • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Local Color • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Local Correspondent • George Weston • (ss)
• The Locket • T. D. Pendleton • (ss)
• Locum-Tenens • Ian Hay • (ss)
• The Lodge in the Wilderness • Beatrice Grimshaw • (nv)
• The Log of the Jolly Polly • Richard Harding Davis • (ss)
• The Logic of Tippoo Na Gai • Hendrik Willem Van Loon • (ss)
• L’Ombre • Robert W. Chambers • (ss)
• The Lone Hand Raid • Hugh Clifford • (ss)
• The Lone Wolf • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Lonely House • Reginald Wright Kauffman • (ss)
• The Lonely Light • Edith MacVane • (ss)
• Lonely Places • Francis Buzzell • (ss)
• The Lonely Road • Mary Lanier Magruder • (ss)
• The Long Carry • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The Long Chamber • Olivia Howard Dunrar • (ss)
• The Long Chance • Larry Evans • (ss)
• Long Ever Ago • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• Long Live Liberty! • Kenneth MacNichol • (ss)
• Long Live the King! • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Long—Short—and a Long • Ival McPeak • (ss)
• Long Trail’s End • Francis William Sullivan • (ss)
• The Long Try • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Long Vacation • Francis Buzzell • (ss)
• Lonny of the “Two Million” • Charles T. Heaslip • (ss)
• Look Away • Helen T. Miller • (ss)
• The Look of Eagles • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• Looking After Christine • R. H. Barbour • (ss)
• Looking for a Play • Jessie Trimble • (ss)
• The Loot of Bombasharna • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, 18th Baron • (ss)
• The Lord Mayor of Buffalo • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• Lord of Many Peaks • Robert Welles Ritchie • (sl)
• The Lord Provides • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Lord Winton’s Adventure • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Lord’s Own Level • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• Lorenzo and the Clinging Vine • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Lost and Found • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
• Lost and Found • Elizabeth Robins • (ss)
• Lost and Found • Edward Hugh Sothern • (ss)
• The Lost Cup • Alice Brown • (ss)
• The Lost God • John Russell • (ss)
• The Lost Last Trump • H. G. Wells • (ss)
• The Lost Phoebe • Theodore Dreiser • (ss)
• A Lot for a Life • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Lot of the Inventor • Alvin Saunders Johnson • (ss)
• Louquier’s Third Act • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Love Affair of No.9 • Louis Weadock • (ss)
• Love and the Business • George Davies • (ss)
• Love and the Lotus • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• “Love at Large” • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Love at Patty-Cake • Charles N. Sims • (ss)
• The Love Fool • Archie Bell • (ss)
• Love in a Mask • Alice E. Duffy • (ss)
• Love Is Love • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Love Letters of Nancy • Louisa Brooke • (ss)
• The Love Maternal • Clara Elizabeth Laughlin • (ss)
• The Love of Women • E. Ayrton Zangwill • (ss)
• The Love Promise • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• A Love Story • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Love the Pilgrim • Mrs. Havelock Ellis • (ss)
• Love-in-a-Mist • Elizabeth Maury Coomes • (ss)
• The Love-Lady • Jeanne Olive Loizeaux • (ss)
• A Lover of Animals • Max Eastman • (ss)
• Lovers and Lovers • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• Lover’s Leap • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Love’s Death Test • Viola Burhans • (ss)
• Love’s Umpire • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• Love’s Water Test • Charles N. Sims • (ss)
• Loving in Boytime • Carl I. Henrikson • (ss)
• Luck • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• Luck and the Cavalryman • Karl Birnek • (ss)
• The Luck of a Sourdough • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• The Luck of Batture Baptiste • Ruth McEnery Stuart • (ss)
• The Luck of the Devil • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Lucky 7 • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Lucky No.59 • Emma Mauritz Larson • (ss)
• Lucky Numbers • Montague Glass • (ss)
• Lucky Sweasy! • Austin Lewis • (ss)
• Luisa Pays in Gold • G. W. Ogden • (ss)
• Lupo • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• “The Lusitania Waits, Sir!” • Alfred Noyes • (ss)
• Lynching in Bass County • Alvin Saunders Johnson • (ss)
• Ma Pettengill and the Song of Songs • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Mabel Plays the Game • Noble May • (ss)
• Macaroons • Meade Minnigerode • (ss)
• MacLachan of Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• The Macwaugh’s Self-Denial • Clotilde Graves • (ss)
• The Mad Lady • Harriet Prescott Spofford • (ss)
• The Mad Man, the Dead Man, and the Devil • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• Madame Pharaoh’s Daughter • George Weston • (ss)
• Madame Zaranova • Frederick Lewis Allen • (ss)
• Madame’s Doctor • George Weston • (ss)
• Madame’s Mexican Mix-Up • George Weston • (ss)
• Madame’s Thanksgiving • George Weston • (ss)
• Madame’s Third Affair • George Weston • (ss)