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The Best British Short Stories of 1923 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard, 1923, 333pp, hc)

3 • The Smell in the Library [“Red Antony”; Lord George Tarlyon] • Michael Arlen • nv The Sketch Dec 25 ’22
24 • Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty • Stacy Aumonier • ss The Strand Sep ’22
41 • A Queer Fellow • Clifford Bax • ss The Beacon Aug ’22
47 • Melancholy Adventure • D. F. Boyd • vi The Manchester Guardian May 23 ’23
49 • The Mole • Gerald Bullett • ss The London Mercury May ’23
58 • Black Country • Thomas Burke • ss Lloyd’s Magazine Dec ’22
67 • Alas, Poor Bollington! • A. E. Coppard • ss Saturday Review (UK) Oct 14 ’22
76 • Sindbad of “Sunny Lea” • Norman Davey • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Sep 9 ’22
85 • Death of the Jester • W. L. George • ss The Century Oct ’22
97 • The Stranger • Richard Hughes • ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette May 26 ’23
106 • Some Talk of Alexander • A. S. M. Hutchinson • nv The Sphere Nov ’22
143 • Comfort • F. Tennyson Jesse • nv The London Magazine Dec ’22
165 • Old Gadgett • Sheila Kaye-Smith • ss Harper’s Aug ’22; Cassell’s Mar 21 ’23
175 • The Horse Dealer’s Daughter • D. H. Lawrence • ss The English Review, 1923
194 • The Fly • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Nation Mar 18 ’22; The Century Sep ’22
200 • The Taipan • W. Somerset Maugham • ss Pearson’s Magazine Oct ’22
208 • Stripes • Ethel Colburn Mayne • ss The Golden Hind Oct ’22
216 • Another Temple Gone • C. E. Montague • ss The London Mercury Dec ’22
234 • The Inspired ’Busman • Elinor Mordaunt • ss Saturday Review (UK) Jul 1 ’22
242 • The Sniper • Liam O’Flaherty • ss The New Leader Jan 12 ’23
247 • Contrairy Mary • Edwin Pugh • ss The English Review Jan ’23
254 • Mayor’s Dovecote • Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch • ss Metropolitan Magazine Jun ’08; Cassell’s Winter Annual, 1
267 • The Prophetic Camera • L. de Giberne Sieveking • ss The English Review Nov ’22
279 • The Machine Breaks Down • Osbert Sitwell • ss The English Review Dec ’22
290 • The Enemy • Hugh Walpole • ss The Strand Feb ’23
302 • Blessed Are the Meek • Mary Webb • ss The English Review Sep ’22
The Best British Short Stories of 1924 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard, 1924, 303pp, hc)

3 • Mr. Franklyn’s Adventure • James Murray Allison • ss The London Mercury Nov ’23
12 • Mrs. Lovelace • Martin Armstrong • ss The London Mercury Mar ’24
21 • Bill Grimes His Soul • Rolf Bennett • ss The English Review Sep ’23
27 • Deosil • Mary Butts • ss Transatlantic Review Mar ’24
38 • The Higgler • A. E. Coppard • nv Transatlantic Review May ’24
67 • The Appeal • E. M. Delafield • ss Eve Magazine Apr 9 ’24
75 • The Coffin • Caradoc Evans • ss Illustrated Review Jul ’23
81 • Night Fears • Leslie P. Hartley • ss The Tatler Apr 30 ’24
88 • The Old Story • Janko Lavrin • ss The New Age Dec 13 ’23
93 • Deckers on the Coast • William McFee • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’23
109 • Lion’s Courage • G. B. Mackenzie • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’23
120 • The Samuel Josephs • Katherine Mansfield • ss Adelphi Jun ’23
127 • Oakfield House • Archibald Marshall • nv The London Mercury, 1923
155 • In a Strange Land • W. Somerset Maugham • ss Cosmopolitan Feb ’24
159 • We Were Just Saying • Viola Meynell • ss Time and Tide May 16 & 23 ’24
168 • The Lion’s Den • Raymond Mortimer • nv The London Mercury Sep ’23
202 • Spring Sowing • Liam O’Flaherty • ss T.P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly Mar 8 ’24
209 • Banished • Con O’Leary • ss The Manchester Guardian Feb 8 ’24
213 • The Beautiful Sea • T. F. Powys • ss The New Leader May 23 ’24
218 • Death • Dorothy Richardson • vi The Weekly Westminster Feb 9 ’24
221 • Creaking Sarah and Laughing Sal • Helen Rootham • ss The Nation Oct 13 ’23
226 • At the Mickleham Arms • Helen Simpson • ss The Weekly Westminster Nov 3 ’23
230 • Undergrowth • Edith Sitwell • ss The Golden Hind Jan ’24
244 • Bible Brown • H. M. Tomlinson • ss Adelphi Jan ’24
251 • The Mask of Michichiyo • W. J. Turner • ss The Winter Owl, 1923
264 • Tambourin Chinois • Romer Wilson • ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette Aug 18 ’23
The Best British Short Stories of 1925 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard, 1925, 346pp, hc)

3 • Red Hair • Princess Elizabeth Bibesco • ss The Chicago Tribune Jul 27 ’25
20 • Fifty Pounds • A. E. Coppard • ss Calendar Mar ’25
36 • Faithful Jenny Dove • Eleanor Farjeon • ss Hutchinson’s Magazine Oct ’24
52 • Miss Wickers • Viola Garvin • nv The London Mercury Jul ’24
77 • Poor Man’s Inn • Richard Hughes • ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine Apr ’24
88 • Jimmy and the Desperate Woman • D. H. Lawrence • nv The Criterion Oct ’24
115 • The Redemption of Madame Fradeau • Kenneth MacNichol • ss Blackwood’s Dec ’24
134 • The Fox • George Manning-Sanders • ss The Dublin Magazine Apr ’25
142 • Picnic • John Metcalfe • ss Adelphi Apr ’25
155 • The Friend in Need • Allan N. Monkhouse • ss The Manchester Guardian Nov 12 ’24
159 • The Quest • Marmaduke Pickthall • ss The Cornhill Magazine Sep ’24
179 • The Painted Wagon • T. F. Powys • ss The Dial Feb ’25
184 • The Escape of Saemundr • Will Smith • ss The New Statesman Jul 5 ’24
188 • Storm • L. A. G. Strong • ss The Golden Hind Jul ’24
202 • The Enemy in Ambush • Hugh Walpole • ss The Cornhill Magazine Mar ’25
214 • While ’Zekiel Ploughed • C. Henry Warren • ss Outlook (London) Feb 7 ’25
219 • The Diamond • E. L. Grant Watson • ss The Cornhill Magazine Sep ’24
230 • “Chanson Triste” • A. W. Wells • ss The English Review Nov ’24
240 • Two Masters • Arthur Wheen • ss The London Mercury Nov ’24
260 • The Cage Bird • Francis Brett Young • ss The Story-Teller Sep ’24
279 • The Rapparee • Lynn Doyle • ss The Irish Statesman Jul 5 ’24
286 • Samhain • Dorothy Macardle • ss The Dublin Magazine Oct ’24
296 • The Reaping Race • Liam O’Flaherty • ss The Dublin Magazine Nov ’24
The Best British Short Stories of 1926 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1926, 427pp, hc)

3 • The Awakening • Stella Benson • ss The Bookman Dec ’25
12 • The Devil’s Own Luck • John D. Beresford • ss The Century May ’26
24 • The Mousetrap • Gerald Bullett • ss Saturday Review (UK) Nov 14 ’25
33 • The Dream of Ah Lum • Thomas Burke • ss Cosmopolitan Oct ’25
46 • The Box • Richard Carol • vi The London Daily News Jan 11 ’26
48 • The Field of Mustard • A. E. Coppard • ss The Criterion Apr ’25
58 • Mr. Kempe • Walter de la Mare • nv Harper’s Nov ’25
88 • A Country House • Dorothy Edwards • ss The Calendar of Modern Letters Aug ’25
102 • The Aunt Sally • Constance Holme • ss Adelphi Jun ’25
109 • Half Holiday • Aldous Huxley • ss Harper’s Sep ’25
126 • The Prevailing Ill • Humfrey Jordan • nv Blackwood’s Nov ’25
161 • The Woman Who Rode Away • D. H. Lawrence • nv The Dial Jul-Aug ’25
202 • Step-Mother Earth • Ena Limebeer • ss The Nation Dec 19 ’25
206 • Down and Out • Allan N. Monkhouse • ss The Manchester Guardian Dec 18 ’25
210 • Crazywell • Eden Phillpotts • nv The Pall Mall Magazine Dec ’06; The Graphic Christmas ’25
243 • Defeat • Edward Scouller • ss The New Leader May 28 ’26
255 • Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe • Jan Struther • ss G.K.’s Weekly Oct 24 ’25
262 • Mr. Oddy • Hugh Walpole • ss Cosmopolitan Mar ’26
279 • Pound for Pound • Albert Richard Wetjen • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 26 ’25
312 • Balalaika • Francis Brett Young • ss The Story-Teller Jan ’26
321 • The Piper • Thomas Kelly • ss The Manchester Guardian Feb 18 ’26
325 • The Inquisition • Liam O’Flaherty • ss Adelphi Mar ’26
The Best British Short Stories of 1927 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1927, 427pp, hc)

3 • The Idealist • Mary Arden • ss Adelphi Aug ’26
14 • The Spoil-Sport • Stacy Aumonier • ss Pearson’s Magazine Sep ’26
31 • Hate • H. H. Bashford • ss The Grand Magazine Nov ’26
44 • Fear • H. E. Bates • ss The Nation Mar ’26
49 • The Indomitable Mrs. Garthorne • J. D. Beresford • nv Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Feb ’27
72 • “Just Imagine...” • Elizabeth Bowen • ss Eve Magazine Christmas ’26
85 • The Three Scholars • Osbert Burdett • ss New Criterion Jan ’27
104 • Purl and Plain • David Garnett • ss Vogue (UK) Jul ’26
111 • The ’Cello • T. G. G.-A. • ss Adelphi Nov ’26
116 • The Most Miserable of Men • Desmond MacCarthy • ss The Empire Review May ’26
127 • Funeral March of a Marionette • John Metcalfe • ss The Independent Jan 1 ’27
136 • Lost Property • R. H. Mottram • ss The English Review Jan ’27
148 • A Tale That Was Told • L. A. Pavey • ss The Manchester Guardian Apr 19 ’27
153 • Tragedy in a Greek Theatre • V. S. Pritchett • ss The Cornhill Magazine Jan ’27
169 • A Kind of Freedom • Anthony Richardson • ss The Royal Magazine Oct ’26
184 • The Lock • Edward Sackville-West • nv The Forum Jan ’27
210 • The Sheep • Mary Somerville • ss The Century Apr ’27
228 • The Emptied Sack • Daniel Corkery • ss The Dial Aug ’26
241 • The Informer • Shaw Desmond • ss Scribner’s Jan ’27
255 • Getting Even • Thomas Kelly • vi The Manchester Guardian May 10 ’27
258 • The Bomb-Shop • Seán O’Faoláin • ss The Dial Mar ’27
273 • Rebels They Were Called • K. F. Purdon • nv Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Mar ’27
296 • The Quest • Lennox Robinson • ss The Dial Oct ’26
The Best British Short Stories of 1928 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928, 360pp, hc)

3 • Old Beetle’s Crime • Alex. Barber • ss The Queen May 30 ’28
10 • The Cornet-Player • Arnold Bennett • ss The Strand Aug ’27
24 • The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub • Ernest Bramah • nv The London Mercury Sep ’27
55 • Dick’s Hatband • Dora M. Broome • ss The Manchester Guardian Aug 2 ’27
58 • Fine Feathers • A. E. Coppard • nv Bermondsey Book Dec-Jan ’28 ’27
84 • Furniture • Anne Corner • ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 3 ’27
88 • “Le Petit Rabbin” • Louis Golding • ss Bermondsey Book Sep-Nov ’27
98 • “Every Twenty Years” • Ray Coryton Hutchinson • ss The Empire Review Jan ’28
111 • A Wedding Morn • Sheila Kaye-Smith • nv The Story-Teller Dec ’27
140 • Pascoe’s Song • Charles Lee • ss The English Review Mar ’28
146 • Brotherhood • H. A. Manhood • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 11 ’27
151 • The Bride’s Dream • Adelaide Eden Phillpotts • ss Good Housekeeping (UK) May ’28
168 • The Man Who Didn’t Laugh • Herbert Shaw • ss The Century Nov ’27
184 • Travellers • L. A. G. Strong • ss The Dial Feb ’28
198 • The Heller • Henry Williamson • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’28
211 • Poultry, 2s 6d. • Margaret Fane & Hilary Lofting • ss The Bulletin Christmas ’27
222 • La Divina Pastora • C. L. R. James • ss Saturday Review (UK) Oct 15 ’27
227 • Blind Justice • Ethelreda Lewis • ss Outspan Jun 24 ’27
241 • Of Their Kin • J. Bernard MacCarthy • ss The Manchester Guardian Jan 23 ’28
245 • The Lamplighter • A. W. Wells • ss Outspan May 6 ’27
The Best British Short Stories of 1929 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1929, 363pp, hc)

3 • Sombrero • Martin Armstrong • ss The London Mercury Feb ’29
23 • Whessoe • Nugent Barker • ss Life and Letters Dec ’28
35 • The Child • H. E. Bates • ss The Criterion Jan ’29
40 • The Man Who Missed the ’Bus • Stella Benson • ss Harper’s Monthly Mar ’29
58 • A Russian Story • David Garnett • ss Life and Letters Nov ’28
72 • The Derelict • Eleanor Gaukroger • vi The Manchester Guardian Apr 18 ’29
75 • Egyptian Nocturne • E. D. Goitein • ss The New Statesman Nov 10 ’28
80 • The Door in the Attic • Dorothy Johnson • ss The English Review Aug ’28
92 • The Dancers • Eric Linklater • ss The London Mercury May ’29
112 • The Hag of Auvergne • J. B. Morton • ss The New Statesman May 25 ’29
117 • “John Gladwin Says...” • Oliver Onions • ss The London Magazine Aug ’28
131 • A Man of Letters • Sir Squire Sprigge, M.D. • nv The Cornhill Magazine Oct ’28
170 • “Prongs” • L. A. G. Strong • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Mar 30 ’29
178 • The Escape • E. H. Lacon Watson • ss The London Mercury Nov ’28
192 • Frost in April • Malachi Whitaker • ss The New Adelphi Mar-May ’29
202 • The Raid • George A. Birmingham • ss The Forum Sep ’28
217 • The Ruining of Dromacurrig • Daniel Corkery • ss Columbia, 1928
230 • The Smiling Faces • Brinsley MacNamara • ss The Dublin Magazine Jan-Mar ’29
240 • Lai John • Alfred H. Mendes & Algernon Wharton • ss The London Mercury Jan ’29
250 • After Fourteen Years • Frank O’Connor • ss The Dublin Magazine Apr-Jun ’28
256 • Fugue • Seán O’Faoláin • ss The Hound and Horn Sep ’28
274 • Mated • Margaret O’Leary • ss The Dial Apr ’29
287 • Desolation • Pauline Smith • ss Woman’s Journal Jul ’28
The Best British Short Stories of 1930 with an Irish and Colonial Supplement ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1930, 284pp, hc)

3 • Love to the Angels • Mary Arden • ss The New Adelphi Jun-Aug ’29
13 • Stays • G. M. Attenborough • ss The Cornhill Magazine Dec ’29; Vanity Fair Mar ’30
24 • The Comic Actor • H. E. Bates • ss The New Statesman Jun ’29
33 • Tam McWhirker’s Elephant • Richard Carol • ss The Strand Jan ’30
44 • The Journey • Padraic Colum • ss The Dial Jun ’29
58 • The Miracle • Lily Anne Coppard • ss The Manchester Guardian Jan 15 ’30
62 • The Vocation • Kathleen Coyle • ss Bermondsey Book Jun-Aug ’29
72 • “The Mother • Richmal Crompton • ss Woman Jul 5 ’29
92 • Revelation • Rhys Davies • ss This Quarter Oct-Dec ’29
104 • The Way He Went • Norah Holt • ss This Quarter Jan-Mar ’30
120 • Why Adonis Laughed • Sarah Gertrude Millin • ss The New Adelphi Jun-Aug ’29; The Forum Jul ’29
126 • Happy Ending? • Naomi Mitchison • ss The Cornhill Magazine Apr ’30
141 • Culpability • Allan N. Monkhouse • ss The Manchester Guardian Apr 15 ’30
145 • Miss Naseby’s Life • Florida Pier • ss The Fortnightly Review Oct ’29
163 • The Corsican Inn • V. S. Pritchett • ss The Fortnightly Review Feb ’30
171 • The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth • Lorna Rea • ss Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Dec ’29
179 • First Blood • Herbert Read • ss This Quarter Jul-Sep ’29
183 • The Bath • Henry Handel Richardson • ss Harper’s Oct ’29
187 • Hellmut Lies in the Sun • Edward Sackville-West • ss The London Mercury Jun ’29
213 • Orpheus • L. A. G. Strong • ss The Century Jul ’27; John o’ London’s Weekly Aug 24 ’29
220 • Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain • Sylvia Townsend Warner • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’29
231 • The Secret • Malachi Whitaker • ss The New Adelphi Jun-Aug ’29
234 • I Met a Man Going to St. Neots • Romer Wilson • ss
The Best British Short Stories of 1931 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1931, 324pp, hc)

3 • On the Road • H. E. Bates • ss The New Statesman Feb 28 ’31
9 • A Story without a Plot • Norman R. Collins • ss The London Mercury Jul ’30
20 • The Limit • Kathleen Coyle • ss This Quarter Apr-Jun ’30
33 • Blodwen • Rhys Davies • ss This Quarter Apr-Jun ’31
49 • Panic • Daphne du Maurier • ss Saturday Review (UK) Feb 28 ’31
59 • In the Know • Arnold Edmondson • ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 2 ’30
64 • A Night at Sligo’s • A. E. Fisher • ss The Midland Jan-Feb ’31
75 • Right of Way • H. W. Freeman • ss The London Mercury May ’30
83 • Penny Whistle • Oliver Gossman • ss Story Apr-May ’31
89 • Seductio Ad Absurdum • Malcolm Lowry • ss Experiment Spr ’31
108 • Lonely Camp • H. A. Manhood • ss Blackwood’s Mar ’31
136 • Ugliness • Ethel Colburn Mayne • ss The New Statesman Sep 27 ’30
142 • Judas • John Metcalfe • ss The London Mercury Oct ’30
159 • Treasure in the Dune • E. R. Morrough • ss The London Mercury Oct ’30
173 • Liars • Florida Pier • ss This Quarter Apr-Jun ’31
183 • Ordeal • Dorothy M. Richardson • ss The Window Oct ’30
190 • The Poet • V. Sackville-West • ss Life and Letters Apr ’31
199 • Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork • Lady Eleanor Smith • ss The London Mercury Mar ’31
213 • Death of the Gardener • L. A. G. Strong • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Nov 8 ’30; The Bookman Mar ’31
226 • A Wedding Present • W. A. Ward-Jackson • ss The London Magazine Jan ’31
233 • The Silence Returns • Oliver Warner • ss The New Statesman Nov 15 ’30
238 • The Son • Sylvia Townsend Warner • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’31
251 • Postal Order • Malachi Whitaker • ss The New Adelphi Oct ’30
261 • An Idyll • Orlo Williams • ss The Criterion Jul ’30
282 • Intimations of Immortality • Romer Wilson • ss Adelphi Nov ’30
The Best British Short Stories of 1932 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1932, 311pp, hc)

3 • The Tale of a Child • Josef Bard • nv The New English Weekly Apr 28 ’32 (+2)
24 • A Flower Piece • H. E. Bates • ss The New Statesman Oct 10 ’31
30 • The Albatross • Hector Bolitho • ss Life and Letters Aug ’31
44 • The Returned • Neville Brand • ss This Quarter Mar ’32
59 • A Great Bunch of White Lilac • Edward Charles • ss Adelphi Nov ’31
63 • Green Thoughts • John Collier • ss Harper’s May ’31; The London Mercury May ’31
81 • The Provost’s Tale • A. J. Cronin • ss The Graphic Christmas ’31
98 • The Vanishing Trick • Charles Davy • ss The English Review May ’31
110 • Mrs. Mulgar • Lord Dunsany • ss The Manchester Guardian Mar 17 ’32
113 • Neighbors • Oliver Gossman • ss Story Jun-Jul ’31
118 • The End of the Party • Graham Greene • ss The London Mercury Jan ’32
129 • The Saint Who Lost His Halo • Charles Hodges • ss The London Mercury Nov ’31
149 • The Last Rose of Summer • Eiluned Lewis • ss The London Mercury Sep ’31
170 • Self-Expression • Allan N. Monkhouse • ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 13 ’31
174 • The Escape from Fairyland • J. B. Morton • ss The London Mercury Feb ’32
181 • The Shutters • R. H. Mottram • ss The Windsor Magazine Oct ’31
190 • Lovers • Liam O’Flaherty • ss The English Review Sep ’31
199 • The Maid • L. A. Pavey • ss Adelphi Jun ’31
209 • Woolly Gloves • V. S. Pritchett • ss The Fortnightly Review Jun ’31
223 • The Fairy Hill • Edward Shanks • ss The London Mercury Dec ’31
248 • Nowell • Margaret Southern • ss The Manchester Guardian Dec 24 ’31
253 • Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow • L. A. G. Strong • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jul 11 ’31; The Yale Review Mar ’32
262 • The Saint • Antonia White • ss Life and Letters Nov ’31
270 • On with the Dance • Romer Wilson • ss This Quarter Dec ’31

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