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

Stories, Listed by Title

• Phyllis Fellowes, Feminist • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• The Piano of Pervyse • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• Pics • Jack Lait • (ss)
• Piece of Fluff • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Pier Glass • Thyra Samter Winslow • (ss)
• The Pigeons • Coelho Netto • (ss)
• The Pilgrim of Jackass Bar • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• Pilkington • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• Pillikin • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• Pilot Matthey’s Christmas • Arthur T. Quiller-Couch • (ss)
• The Pin-Prick • May Sinclair • (ss)
• A Pinch Hit in Vaudeville • Bozeman Bulger • (ss)
• Pinch Hitting for Cupid • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Pink ’Un • Henry Fitzgerald • (ss)
• The Pink-Silk Descendant • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• The Pioneers • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• The Pipe • Anon. • (ss)
• The Pipes of Pan • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• Pirates • Henry Edward Rood • (ss)
• Pirates of the Back Stairs • Adriana Spadoni • (ss)
• Pitou’s Offertory • Anna Chapin Ray • (ss)
• Pity Me! • S. Elpatievsky • (ss)
• Piute vs. Piute • Charles E. Van Loan • (nv)
• The Pixie • Hartley Burr Alexander • (ss)
• A Place in the Sun • Alvin Saunders Johnson • (ss)
• The Place of Sanctuary • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• Plain German • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• A Plain Girl • Henry Cuyler Bunner • (ss)
• Plain Jane • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• The Plain Woman • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• Planted • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Planter of Malata • Joseph Conrad • (sl)
• A Play for Miss Dane • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• The Play Leader • Emma Mauritz Larson • (ss)
• The Playboy • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• Playgrounds Dim • Calvin Johnston • (ss)
• Playing Both Ends • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• Playing Dead • Richard Harding Davis • (ss)
• Playing Even for Obadiah • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Playing the Game • Ethel May Kelley • (ss)
• Pleasure Exertions • Elna Harwood Wharton • (ss)
• Pleasure Island • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• The Pleasure of Your Company • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• Pluck • Olive Higgins Prouty • (ss)
• The Plugger Who LOst His Pep • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• The Plum-Pudding Dog • Henry Dudeney, Mrs. • (ss)
• The Plunge • W. B. Trites • (ss)
• Pocket Hunterd The • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• The Pocketville Bride • Camilla E. L. Kenyon • (ss)
• Pode • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Pogrom • Mar. Eugenie delle Grazie • (ss)
• The Poilu’s Banquet • René Benjamin • (ss)
• The Poilu’s Dream on Christmas Eve • Anon. • (ss)
• The Poinsettia Widow • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• The Point of Collision • Burton Kline • (ss)
• A Point of Detail • Sapper • (ss)
• A Point of Etiquette • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• A Point of Honor • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• A Point of Honor • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Point of View • Elliott Flower • (ss)
• The Poison Ship • Morgan Robertson • (ss)
• The Poison Word • Coningsby Dawson • (ss)
• Pom-Pom vs. Henri • George Weston • (ss)
• The Pomegranate Coat • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The Pomeranian • Louise Wolfe • (ss)
• A Pool of Clear Water • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• Poor Butterfly • Louise Elizabeth Dutton • (ss)
• The Poor Dear • Maria Thompson Daviess • (ss)
• “Poor Laura Mather!” • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Poor Old Skirts • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• Poor on $10,000 a Year • Alexander Costello • (ss)
• The Poor Simp • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Poor ’Toinette • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Poor Working Girl • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Popcorn Man • Mary Synon • (ss)
• The Pope of the Big Sandy • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• Poppy Seed • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Pop’s Place for Sassy Sally • Lincoln Steffens • (ss)
• Pop’s Ribbon-Thief • Lincoln Steffens • (ss)
• Porky’s Cissy • Mrs. Havelock Ellis • (ss)
• The Port of a Vanishing Dream • Charles Boardman Hawes • (ss)
• The Portrait • Emery Bemsley Pottle • (ss)
• Portrait of a Mexican General • I. • (ss)
• Portrait of My Uncle • May Sinclair • (ss)
• Possessing Prudence • Amy Wentworth Stone • (ss)
• Postponement. Poetry. Feb • Henry Blake Fuller • (ss)
• The Pot of Gold • Roy Norton • (ss)
• The Pot-Boiler • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• The Potato Soldier • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• Pour la Patrie • Mary Brent Whiteside • (ss)
• The Power and the Glory • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• The Power of the Press • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Powerful Wobberjohn • Avery Abbott • (ss)
• Powers of the Air • J. D. Beresford • (ss)
• The Practical Joker • Will Irwin • (ss)
• Practice Makes Cock-Sure • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• The Practicing of Christopher • John Russell • (ss)
• Pragmatic Patricia • Margaret Cameron • (sl)
• The Prairie • Walter J. Muilenburg • (ss)
• The Preaching Peony • Alice Brown • (ss)
• Preface • Edward C. Venable • (ss)
• Prem Siugh • John Amid • (ss)
• The Preposterous Princess • Stacy Aumonier • (ss)
• A Present • Leonid Andreyev • (ss)
• Presentiment • Maurice Leblanc • (ss)
• The Presentiment • Abby Merchant • (ss)
• The President’s Nephew • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• The President’s Son • Philip Prescott Frost • (ss)
• Prester Jim • Vale Downie • (ss)
• The Pretender • Forrest Crissey • (ss)
• The Pretender • Vera Edmondson • (ss)
• The Pretender • Katharine Terry • (sl)
• The Price of Catalogues • Olive Higgins Prouty • (ss)
• The Price of Happiness • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• The Price of Rawhide • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Price of the Head • John Russell • (ss)
• Pride • Jeanette D. Pearl • (ss)
• Pride • Julian Rothery • (ss)
• Pride • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Pride of Mary Regan • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Primitive Methods • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Prince Enchanted • Clare P. Peeler • (ss)
• The Prince’s Ball • Alice Brown • (ss)
• The Prince’s Tale • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• The Princess and the Professor • Peter Blundell • (ss)
• The Princess Fredegonda • Richard Marsh • (ss)
• Princess Laura’s One Day • The Gilberts • (ss)
• Princess of Sunflower Alley • Harry Stillwell Edwards • (ss)
• The Prisoner • Lillian Bennet-Thompson • (ss)
• A Prisoner of War • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Prisoner’s Defense • Arthur Conan Doyle • (ss)
• The Prisoners for Virginia • H. B. Marriott Watson • (ss)
• Private Riley • Ernest Dunlop Swinton • (ss)
• Private Williams and Mutt • D. J. Marshall • (ss)
• The Prize Winner • Mariel Brady • (ss)
• The Prize Winner • Chester Macklin • (ss)
• Pro Honoria • James Branch Cabell • (ss)
• Pro Patria • Octavus Roy Cohen & Eric Levison • (nv)
• Pro Patria • George Creel • (ss)
• Probably Pique • Julian Leonard Street • (ss)
• A Problem in Eugenics • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Prodigal in Utopia • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• The Prodigal Son • Edward H. Hurlbut • (ss)
• The Professional Game • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• A Professor • John Amid • (ss)
• The Promise • Frederic Boutet • (ss)
• Promise Lands • Calvin Johnston • (ss)
• Promotion • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• Pronounced Cwix-ot-ic • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• A Proper Spirit of Regret • Vesta Tharp • (ss)
• Prose Libre • Sidney L. Hydeman • (ss)
• The Prosecuting Witness • Fleta Campbell Springer • (ss)
• Prosperity’s Pinch • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• A Prosperous Gentleman • William Allen White • (ss)
• Providence à la Tipperary • Horace Trendon • (ss)
• The Prune-Stone Dope • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• The Pruning Knife • Andrew Soutar • (ss)
• The Prussian • Alden Brooks • (ss)
• Pseudonymous • Gordon Hall Gerould • (ss)
• The Psychologicai Moment • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• The Psychological Decider • Wilson Woodrow, Mrs. • (ss)
• Psychology of a Suicide • Clara Morris • (ss)
• A Puff of Wind • Elinor Mordaunt • (ss)
• Pulling an Alibi for Mink • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Pulse of Spring • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• The Pumpkin Coach • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Punch Parisian • Ed Cahn • (ss)
• Punderson Waite • Ceylon E. Hollingsworth • (ss)
• The Puppet • E. M. Jameson • (ss)
• The Puppet Show • Algernon Botesen • (ss)
• Puppies of the Pack • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Pure in Heart • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• Purged • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• The Purple Monkey • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• The Purple Star • Rebecca Hooper Eastman • (ss)
• The Pursuit • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Pursuit of Peter • Margaret Fawcett • (ss)
• Puss Wants a Corner • William H. Hamby • (ss)
• “Pussy-Cat! Pussy-Cat!” • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• Putting It Over Handel • Berton Braley • (ss)
• Putting One Over“ • Walter Dundore Brenner • (ss)
• Putting the Bee in Herbert • George Weston • (ss)
• Putting the Machine Out of Business • Mervin Roberts • (ss)
• A Quadrangular Love Affair • Frederic Arnold Kummer • (ss)
• The Quail Call • Will Payne • (ss)
• A Qualifying Turn for Torchy • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Quality Folks • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Quality of Genius • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• The Quality of Mercy • Simeon Strunsky • (ss)
• A Quarrel • Anon. • (ss)
• The Quarrelsome Club • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Quarry • Van H. Cartmell, Jr. • (ss)
• The Queen Bee • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• Queen of Hearts • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Queen’s Mistake • Bozeman Bulger • (ss)
• “Queer” • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• The Quenching • W. K. Clifford, Mrs. • (ss)
• The Quest and the Question • Richard Barker Shelton • (ss)
• The Quest of London • Richard Matthews Hallet • (ss)
• The Quest of Narcisse Lablanche • George T. Marsh • (ss)
• The Quest of the V.C. • A. Byers Fletcher • (ss)
• A Question of Bigness • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• A Question of Breeding • Mason Houghland • (ss)
• A Question of Character • Will Payne • (ss)
• A Question of Plumage • Christopher Morley • (ss)
• A Question of Time • Ellis O. Jones • (ss)
• “Quiet” • Albert Payson Terhune • (ss)
• The Quilt of Happiness • Kate Douglas Wiggin • (ss)
• The Quitter • Mary Lanier Magruder • (ss)
• The Quitter • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• The Rabbit-pen • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• Rabbits • Charles Marriott • (ss)
• Race • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Race of the O’Murchada • Myles Muredach • (ss)
• Rachel • Rosa Naomi Scott • (ss)
• Radames of the Rock Cut • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• A Rag-Time Hero • Gilbert Frankau • (ss)
• The Ragged Edge of Forty • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• The Raging Chariot • Nelson Lloyd • (ss)
• Rahim of the Hollow Tree • Charles T. Ryder • (ss)