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

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Fur Sale • Louise Closser Hale • (ss)
• A Furbished Gentleman • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Furlough • Florence Kiper Frank • (ss)
• The Fustian Coat • Alice Garland Steele • (ss)
• Fuzz • Joe Bledsoe • (ss)
• The “G” • Juliet Wilbor Tompkins • (ss)
• The G.A.C. • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• The Gall of Gopher Jones • Frederick Simpich • (ss)
• Gallant Age • Alice Cowdery • (ss)
• Galway Intrudes • Frederick Stuart Greene • (nv)
• Gamblers’ Wives • Edward Sanford • (ss)
• The Game • L. D. Stearns • (ss)
• The Game • Marie Louise Van Saanen • (ss)
• The Game at Bay • Amelia Josephine Burr • (ss)
• The Gamut • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Garb of Men • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Garden of Bee-Man John • Margaret Adelaide Wilson • (ss)
• The Garden of Proserpine • Harry Esty Dounce • (ss)
• The Garden of Sleep • Mark Star • (sl)
• The Garden of the Holy Virgin • Alexander I. Kuprin • (ss)
• Garibald’ • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Gas War • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Gautama Buddha • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• The Gay Deceiver • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• The Gay Old Dog • Edna Ferber • (nv)
• The Gay-Cat • Patrick Casey • (ss)
• The Gee-Whiz Guy • Jerome Beatty • (ss)
• The Gem Dealer • Claude M. Girardeau • (ss)
• General Merry Sunshine • Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke • (ss)
• Genevieve and Alonzo • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• The Genius • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Genius Loci • Abbie Carter Goodloe • (ss)
• The Geniuses of Lutton’s Hill • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• A Gentleman Friend • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• The Gentlemanly Thing • J. C. Snaith • (ss)
• A Gentlemen of the Old Regime • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• Gentlemen, You Can’t Go Through! • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• George Bell’s New Teacher • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• George’s Client • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• The Georgia Song-Bird • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• Georgina’s American Triumph • Josephine Underwood Munford • (ss)
• Geraniums • Dudley Burrows • (ss)
• The Germ War • Walter C. Kiplinger • (ss)
• Get Ready the Wreaths • Fannie Hurst • (nv)
• The Get-away • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• Getting Dora Into High • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Getting Even • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Getting Even with Geo’gia • Wilbur S. Boyer • (ss)
• The Ghost • J. J. Bell • (ss)
• The Ghost in the Galley • William B. MacHarg • (ss)
• The Ghost of a Chance • Mary Cholmondeley • (ss)
• The Ghost of O’Toole • George T. Pardy • (ss)
• The Ghost of Rosy Taylor • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• The Ghost on the Stairs • W. K. Clifford, Mrs. • (ss)
• Ghosts • Edward Eyre Hunt • (ss)
• The Giant • Leonid Andreyev • (ss)
• The Giant and His Servants • Padraic Colum • (sl)
• Giddap • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Giddy Girl • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• Gideon • Wells Hastings • (ss)
• The Gift • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• The Gift of the Manger • Edith Barnard Delano • (ss)
• The Gift of the Princess Sophia • Elizabeth Jordan • (ss)
• The Gifts of the Gods • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, 18th Baron • (ss)
• The Gifts of Three Wise Men • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• Gilbert the Filbert • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• The Girl and Sylvester • Florence Ryerson • (ss)
• The Girl and the Giant • Marshall Hugh Irish • (ss)
• The Girl and the Governor • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• The Girl and the Gunboat • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• The Girl at the Ad Counter • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Girl at Van Goyt’s • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• The Girl Behind Him • George Weston • (ss)
• The Girl in Brown • H. de Vere Stacpoole • (ss)
• The Girl in the Hall Bedroom • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Girl in the Vine-Covered Cottage • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Girl That “Got” Colly • Conrad Richter • (ss)
• The Girl Who Did n’t Care • George Weston • (ss)
• The Girl Who Did n’t Know • Alice MacGowan • (ss)
• The Girl Who Got On to Her Job • Sara Hamilton Birchall • (ss)
• The Girl Who Invented Sweethearts • George Weston • (ss)
• The Girl Who Is Not Popular • Mary Alexander • (ss)
• The Girl Who Married New York • Cameron Mackenzie • (ss)
• The Girl Who Talked Out Loud • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Girl Who Was a Christmas Tree • George Weston • (ss)
• The Girl Who Was Afraid to Get Married • Grace MacGowan Cooke • (ss)
• The Girl Who Was Talked About • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• The Girl with the R.S.V.P. Eyes • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• Giving Mary the Double-Cross • Harry C. Carr • (ss)
• The Gladiolus Man • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• The Glamor of the Granite • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Glenmere White Monarch and the Gas-House Pup • R. G. Kirk • (ss)
• The Glory • Annie Hamilton Donnell • (ss)
• Glory • Henry Albert Phillips • (ss)
• The Glory Across the Years • Roy Norton • (ss)
• The Glory Girl • Ruth Comfort Mitchell • (ss)
• Glory Grows Up • Frank Hurburt O’Hara • (ss)
• The Glory of the Wild Green Earth • Maxwell Struthers Burt • (ss)
• The Glory-Box • Elizabeth Ashe • (ss)
• Go In and Out the Window • William Gilmore Beymer • (ss)
• The Go-Between • B. M. Bower & Buck Connor • (ss)
• The Goat • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• The Goat Man and Nancy • Bertha A. Rich • (ss)
• God Is Love • Irwin Granich • (ss)
• The God of Happy Chance • O’Donovan Short • (ss)
• The Goddess of Happy Valley • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• The Goddess of Reason • Zona Gale • (ss)
• The Goddess of the Griddle • Charles A. Hoyt • (ss)
• The Godmother • Lucie Delarue-Madrus • (ss)
• The Godmother (II) • Lucie Delarue-Madrus • (ss)
• The Gods and Little Fishes • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• The Gods Arrive • William Allen White • (ss)
• God’s Laugh • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• God’s Material • Charles Belmont Davis • (ss)
• God’s Messenger • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• The Godson of Jeannette Gontreau • Francis William Sullivan • (ss)
• Going After the Inner Meaning • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Going of Agnes • Loraine Anderson Allen • (ss)
• The Gold Fish • R. B. Cunningham Graham • (ss)
• The Gold Fish • Elinor Mordaunt • (ss)
• A Gold Slipper • Willa Cather • (ss)
• The Gold Token • Garet Garrett • (ss)
• Gold Tooth • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Golden Bean • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Golden Door • Jeannette A. Marks • (ss)
• The Golden Doors • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Golden Fleece • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Golden Glow of Victory • Thomas Jeffries Betts • (ss)
• The Golden Goat • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• The Golden Goose • Virginia Tracy • (ss)
• The Golden Hope • Alice MacGowan • (ss)
• The Golden Nuisance • Frank R. Adams • (ss)
• The Golden pomegranates • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Golden Voice • Molly Elliot Seawell • (ss)
• The Goldfinch • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• Goldie and the Spade Man • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• Goldie May and the Faithful Servant • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• The Golf Cure • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• Golgotha • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• The Good Fight • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• Good for the Soul • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• A Good Listener • F. E. C. Robbins • (ss)
• The Good Loser • E. Richard Schayer • (ss)
• A Good Loser • O’Donovan Short • (ss)
• The Good Provider • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• A Good Rooster Crows Everywhere • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Good Will and Almond Shells • Kenneth L. Roberts • (ss)
• Gooseberry • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Gordon Masterpieces • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• The Gorilla • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Governor and the Poet • Arthur Hoag Howland • (ss)
• “Governor Putty” • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Governor’s Stocking • Owen Oliver • (ss)
• A Grabber of Goats • Joseph Ernest • (ss)
• Grady’s Squad • John Milton Oskison • (ss)
• Graft • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• The Grand Little Fellow • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• Grandfather • James Whitcomb Riley • (ss)
• Grandfather Crane Invokes the Aid of Sorcery • Virginia Ellen Baker • (ss)
• Grandmother • Helen Woljeska • (ss)
• Grandmother of Pearl • Abbie Carter Goodloe • (ss)
• Grandpa Makes Him Sick • Lowell Otus Reese • (ss)
• Gratitude • Ben Hecht • (ss)
• Gratitude • Alexander S. Kaun • (ss)
• The Gray Cat • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Gray Guest • Lawrence Clarke • (ss)
• The Gray Mask • Wadsworth Camp • (ss)
• The Gray Princess • Laurence Vail • (ss)
• Gray Snow • Albert W. Tolman • (ss)
• The Gray-Green Platypus • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Greasing the Tram • Albert W. Tolman • (ss)
• The Great American Conscription • Ray Stannard Baker • (ss)
• The Great American Game • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Great American Game • Elna Harwood Wharton • (ss)
• The Great American Spoof Snake • Johnson Jones • (ss)
• The Great Are Simple • Peter Clark MacFarlane • (ss)
• The Great Auk • Irvin S. Cobb • (nv)
• Great Folks • Calvin Johnston • (ss)
• The Great God • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Great Hassanbad Handicap • Michael White • (ss)
• The Great Legend • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• A Great Little Old Understander • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The Great Lost Moment • Lincoln Steffens • (nv)
• The Great Man’s Wife • I. A. R. Wylie • (ss)
• The Great Peacemaker • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• The Great Scene • Maurice Level • (ss)
• The Great Tradition • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Great Understanding • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• Great-Grandfather’s Landscape • Henry Dudeney, Mrs. • (ss)
• The Greater Art • Laura Spencer Portor • (ss)
• The Greater Battle • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Greater Enemy • Frank E. Evans • (ss)
• The Greater Love • Norman B. Beasley • (ss)
• Greater Love Than This • Edward H. Hurlbut • (ss)
• The Greater Sin • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• Greater than Dante • William Samuel Johnson • (ss)
• The Greatest Dread • Max Rittenberg • (ss)
• The Greatest of These • Sally Peters • (ss)
• The Greatest Painter in the World • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Greatest Speech in History • Edwin Lefèvre • (ss)
• Greed • Ella W. Prattle • (ss)
• Greeks Bearing Gifts • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Green Cigar-Band • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Green Crocodile • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• Green Fields • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Green Hat • Celia Baldwin Whitehead • (ss)
• The Green Silk Dress • Frank Hurburt O’Hara • (ss)
• Green Silk Stockings • Edmond McKenna • (ss)
• The Grim Visage • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Grit of Women • Jack London • (ss)
• A Grocer Baronet • G. Court & M. Court • (ss)
• Groping • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• Grotesque Children • Joseph Remenyi • (ss)
• The Grouch • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The Gryphon • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• The Guerdon • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Guest From Samaria • Joseph C. Lincoln • (ss)