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The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1927, 460pp, hc)

1 • The Right Honorable the Strawberries • Owen Wister • nv Cosmopolitan Nov ’26
40 • The Killers • Ernest Hemingway • ss Scribner’s Mar ’27
50 • Another Wife • Sherwood Anderson • ss Scribner’s Dec ’26
59 • Vienna Roast • Harold W. Brecht • ss Harper’s Nov ’26
72 • Child of God • Roark Bradford • ss Harper’s Apr ’27
86 • Minstrels of the Mist • Ben Lucien Burman • ss Pictorial Review Apr ’27
103 • Mademoisele • Elisabeth Finley-Thomas • ss The Century Apr ’27
118 • Three Lumps of Sugar • Amory Hare • ss Cosmopolitan May ’27
123 • Triall by Armes • Joseph Hergesheimer • ss Scribner’s Mar ’27
142 • The Half Pint Flask • DuBose Heyward • ss The Bookman May ’27
158 • When It Happens • James Hopper • ss Harper’s May ’27
169 • North Is Black • Oliver La Farge, 2nd • ss The Dial Jan ’27
181 • Yarbwoman • Rose Wilder Lane • nv Harper’s Jul ’27
202 • Persephone • Meridel Le Sueur • ss The Dial May ’27
213 • Good Morning, Major • J. P. Marquand • nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 11 ’26
240 • Cane River • Lyle Saxon • ss The Dial Mar ’26
255 • The Pawnshop • John S. Sexton • ss Catholic World Dec ’26
259 • Little Dombey • Frank Shay • ss Scribner’s Jan ’27
279 • In Portofino • Alan Sullivan • ss The English Review, 1927
289 • The Hound-Tuner of Callaway • Raymond Weeks • ss The Midland Dec ’26
The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928, 429pp, hc)

1 • The Guardeen Angel • Frederick Hazlitt Brennan • ss Cosmopolitan Dec ’27
13 • The Cat That Lived at the Ritz • Louis Bromfield • ss Harper’s Bazaar Oct ’27
31 • Seven Blocks Apart • Katharine Brush • ss Cosmopolitan Jan ’28
51 • A Country Passion • Morley Callaghan • ss Transition Mar ’28
60 • At the Sign of the Three Daughters • Dorothy Canfield • ss The Delineator May ’28
77 • John of God, the Water Carrier • María Cristina Chambers • ss The Monthly Criterion Oct ’27
94 • No Dam’ Yankee • Irvin S. Cobb • ss Cosmopolitan Nov ’27
113 • The First of Mr. Blue • Myles Connolly • ss Columbia Mar ’28
125 • The Swamper • Walter D. Edmonds • nv The Dial Mar ’28
150 • Home to Mother’s • Eleanor E. Harris • ss Scribner’s Aug ’27
166 • Lady Wipers—of Ypres • Llewellyn Hughes • ss The Century Jan ’28
180 • Give This Little Girl a Hand • Fannie Hurst • nv Cosmopolitan Feb ’28
211 • Battered Armor • Edward L. McKenna • ss McClure’s Dec ’27
222 • A Telephone Call • Dorothy Parker • ss The Bookman Jan ’28
228 • Fences • L. Paul • ss Adventure Dec 15 ’27
246 • On the Mountain-Side • Elizabeth Madox Roberts • ss The American Mercury Aug ’27
258 • The Jew • Edwin Seaver • ss The New Republic Jan 25 ’28
262 • The Romantic Sailor • James Stevens • ss The Frontier May ’28
267 • Midwestern Primative • Ruth Suckow • ss Harper’s Mar ’28
285 • So-Long, Oldtimer • Edmund Ware • ss Ladies Home Journal Aug ’27
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1929, 399pp, hc)

1 • “Hound of Heaven” • Sarah Addington • ss The Forum Mar ’29
20 • The Lost Novel • Sherwood Anderson • ss Scribner’s Sep ’28
26 • The Country Doctor • Ivan Beede • ss Transition Feb ’29
38 • “There’s Money in Poetry” • Konrad Bercovici • ss Harper’s Oct ’28
48 • Soldier Harmon • Morley Callaghan • ss Scribner’s Aug ’28
60 • Double Birthday • Willa Cather • nv The Forum Feb ’29
86 • Wild Plums • Grace Stone Coates • ss The Frontier Mar ’29
92 • Death of Red Peril • Walter D. Edmonds • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’28
104 • First Oboe • James Webber Glover • ss The Forum Jan ’29
112 • Fame for Mr. Beatty • James Norman Hall • ss The Tanager May ’29
123 • Power of Horizon • Leon Srabian Herald • ss The Dial Apr ’29
130 • Alcantara • MacGregor Jenkins • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’29
146 • Manicure • Margaret Leech • ss Harper’s Oct ’28
159 • Potato Picking • Robert McAlmon • ss Transition Feb ’29
169 • His Friend the Pig • Wilson McCarty • ss The Dial Jan ’29
181 • I Have Letters for Marjorie • Edward L. McKenna • ss McClure’s Jun ’28
193 • Light Without Heat • Robert Mullen • ss The Dial May ’29
206 • “Cunjur” • Pernet Patterson • nv Atlantic Monthly Dec ’28
239 • A Guilty Woman • Glenway Wescott • ss The Century Aug ’28
256 • The Venus • William Carlos Williams • ss The Dial Jun ’28
The Best Short Stories of 1930 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1930, 322pp, hc)

1 • Along a Sandy Road • Ellen Bishop • ss Prairie Schooner Win ’30
6 • Suffer Little Children • Clifford Bragdon • ss The Midland Mar-Apr ’30
21 • Two Men Free • Whit Burnett • ss Transition Spr-Sum ’29
34 • The Faithful Wife • Morley Callaghan • ss New Yorker Dec 28 ’29
39 • The Way of the Transgressor • Grace Stone Coates • ss The Frontier Nov ’29
46 • The Voice of the Turtle • Edythe Squier Draper • ss Prairie Schooner Sum ’30
54 • Answer • Ruth Pine Furniss • ss Transition Fll ’29
59 • Blue Sky • Walter Gilkyson • ss Scribner’s Nov ’29
74 • Summer Dust • Caroline Gordon • ss The Gyroscope Nov ’29
87 • Adventure • Emily Hahn • ss New Yorker Feb 22 ’30
91 • Happiness Up the River • Harry Hartwick • ss The Frontier Nov ’29
104 • September Sailing • Eleanor Hayden Kittredge • ss Harper’s Jul ’29
124 • A Red Coat for Night • Manuel Komroff • ss The Yale Review Mar ’30
135 • At the Swamp • Janet Lewis • ss The Bookman Oct ’29
142 • The Little Wife • William March • ss The Midland Jan-Feb ’30
154 • The Cradle of Civilization • Dorothy Parker • ss New Yorker Sep 21 ’29
158 • The White Pigeon • Gouverneur Paulding • ss The Commonweal Mar 26 ’30
162 • The Patriot • William Polk • ss The Hound and Horn Jan-Mar ’30
171 • Theft • Katherine Anne Porter • ss The Gyroscope Nov ’29
177 • The Vineyard at Schloss Ramsburg [Alexander Botts] • William Hazlett Upson • nv The Saturday Evening Post Apr 19 ’30
The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1932, 352pp, hc)

3 • The Foreigner • Bill Adams • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’32
16 • Horizon • Alvah C. Bessie • ss The Criterion Jul ’31
25 • Love’s So Many Things • Clifford Bragdon • ss The Midland Jul ’31
34 • Poisoner in Motley • Louis Brennan • ss Script Jun ’31
44 • Sand • Wanda Burnett • ss Story Mar-Apr ’32
54 • Sherrel • Whit Burnett • ss Story Jun-Jul ’31
62 • Warm River • Erskine Caldwell • ss Pagany Jan-Mar ’32
70 • The Red Hat • Morley Callaghan • ss New Yorker Oct 31 ’31
76 • The Honest Wine Merchant • Helena LeFroy Caperton • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jan 30 ’32
80 • The Story of the Stranger • John Cournos • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Dec 19 ’31
90 • So Tall the Corn • David Cornel De Jong • ss Scribner’s Apr ’32
101 • Hansel • Andrea Diefenthaler • ss New Copy, 1932
108 • Smoke [Gavin Stevens] • William Faulkner • nv Harper’s Apr ’32
134 • Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass • Manuel Komroff • ss Story Mar-Apr ’23
138 • Spring Story • Meridel Le Sueur • ss Scribner’s May ’31
153 • An Arrival at Carthage • Scammon Lockwood • ss The Frontier Nov ’31
165 • Mist on the Meadow • William March • ss The Midland Oct ’31
177 • Heel, Toe and A 1, 2, 3, 4 • George Milburn • ss The American Mercury Apr ’32
187 • The Kimono • Ira V. Morris • ss Story Jun-Jul ’31
198 • Shepherd of the Lord • Peter Neagoe • ss Story Nov-Dec ’31
216 • Load • Dudley Schnabel • ss The Midland May ’31
231 • Gentleman in Blue • Laurence Stallings • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 20 ’32
243 • The Family Chronicle • Bernhard Johann Tüting • ss Story Dec ’31
253 • Untitled Story • José Garcia Villa • ss Clay Aut ’31
264 • The Quarrel • Leo L. Ward • ss Story Sep-Oct ’31
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1933, 365pp, hc)

3 • Fame Takes the J Car • George Albee • ss Story Dec ’32
14 • A Little Walk • Alvah C. Bessie • ss Story May-Jun ’32
21 • Toadstools Are Poison • John Peale Bishop • ss North American Review Jun ’32
30 • Elmer • Albert Truman Boyd • ss Harper’s Aug ’32
42 • Serenade • Whit Burnett • ss Story Oct ’32
54 • The First Autumn • Erskine Caldwell • ss Pagany Jul-Sep ’32
60 • A Sick Call • Morley Callaghan • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’32
68 • The Land of Plenty • Robert Cantwell • ss The New Republic Oct 12 ’32
77 • The Honey Pot • Charles Caldwell Dobie • ss Harper’s Jun ’32
91 • Black Wolf • Walter D. Edmonds • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 18 ’32
108 • Helen, I Love You! • James T. Farrell • ss The American Mercury Jul ’32
115 • Crazy Sunday • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss The American Mercury Oct ’32
133 • What Was Truly Mine • Grace Flandrau • ss Scribner’s Aug ’32
140 • Martyr • Martha Foley • ss Story Aug ’32
145 • Fisherman’s Luck • Emmett Gowen • ss The New English Weekly Sep 22 ’32
157 • Simple Aveu • Nancy Hale • ss Scribner’s May ’32
161 • Going to Market • Albert Halper • ss Harper’s Oct ’32
170 • In the Park • Eugene Joffe • vi The New Republic Oct 5 ’32
173 • Sleet Storm • Louise Lambertson • ss The Country Gentleman Jan ’32
187 • The Facts in the Case • Grant Leenhouts • ss The American Mercury May ’32
202 • The Apostate • George Milburn • ss New Yorker Jun 4 ’32
208 • The Sampler • Ira V. Morris • vi Story Dec ’32
210 • Footnote to a Life • Lloyd Morris • ss Harper’s May ’32
223 • The Cracked Looking-Glass • Katherine Anne Porter • nv Scribner’s May ’32
254 • Episode at the Pawpaws • Louis Reed • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’32
266 • Ike and Us Moons • Naomi Shumway • ss Story Oct ’32
280 • How Beautiful with Shoes • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss Harper’s Aug ’32
301 • The Joybell • Dorothy Thomas • ss The American Mercury Nov ’32
314 • The Fence • José Garcia Villa • ss Prairie Schooner Sum ’32
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1940, hc); [DKL]

1 • Anschluss • Kay Boyle • ss Harper’s Apr ’39
20 • The People V. Abe Lathan, Colored • Erskine Caldwell • ss Esquire Aug ’39
30 • Getting on in the World • Morley Callaghan • ss The American Mercury May ’39
37 • Roof Sitter • Frances Eisenberg • ss Story May-Jun ’39
53 • The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk • James T. Farrell • ss The Canadian Forum Jul ’39
65 • Hand Upon the Waters [Gavin Stevens] • William Faulkner • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 4 ’39
82 • Design in Plaster • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Esquire Nov ’39
89 • Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury • Caroline Gordon • ss The Southern Review Spr ’39
109 • Under the Ridge • Ernest Hemingway • ss Cosmopolitan Oct ’39
123 • Honey House • Mary King • ss The Southern Review Aut ’39
145 • Death of an Outcast • Manuel Komroff • ss Esquire Apr ’39
155 • That Fine Place We Had Last Year • Roderick Lull • ss Story Sep-Oct ’39
170 • Your General Does Not Sleep • Emilio Lussu • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’39
194 • Something Jolly • Dorothy McCleary • ss Story Sep-Oct ’39
214 • Kullan • Edita Morris • ss Story May-Jun ’39
229 • The Beautiful Fire • I. V. Morris • ss Story May-Jun ’39
244 • Family History • P. M. Pasinetti • nv The Southern Review Sum ’39
285 • The Way Death Comes • Prudencio de Pereda • ss Story Sep-Oct ’39
296 • Herself • James Pooler • ss Story Mar-Apr ’39
311 • The Downward Path to Wisdom • Katherine Anne Porter • ss Harper’s Bazaar Dec ’39
333 • The Presbyterian Choir Singers • William Saroyan • ss Harper’s Aug ’39
344 • Words Without Music • Michael Seide • ss American Prefaces Dec ’39
357 • Main Currents of American Thought • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Aug 5 ’39
368 • The Seven Men of Rouen • George Slocombe • ss Esquire Dec ’39
381 • Four Worms Turning • Morton Stern • ss Story May-Jun ’39
387 • The Two Deaths of Kaspar Rausch • Hans Otto Storm • ss The Yale Review Jun ’39
422 • Rich Men • Jesse Stuart • ss Atlantic Monthly Oct ’39
433 • Beautifully and Bravely • Harry Sylvester • ss Colliers Feb 25 ’39
450 • Night and the Lost Armies • Benedict Thielen • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’39
459 • The Hitch-Hikers • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review Aut ’39
476 • Resurgam • Louis Zara • ss Creative Writing May ’39
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, x+928pp, hc); [DA]

1 • The Yellow Cat • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Harper’s Mar ’15
23 • The Lost Phoebe • Theodore Dreiser • ss The Century Apr ’16
42 • The Menorah • Benjamin Rosenblatt • ss The Bellman May 6 ’16
49 • Onnie • Thomas Beer • nv The Century May ’17
73 • Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest] • Irvin S. Cobb • nv The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 ’17
115 • The Meeker Ritual • Joseph Hergesheimer • nv The Century Jun ’19
142 • Turkey Red • Frances Gilchrist Wood • ss Pictorial Review Nov ’19
158 • Fanutza • Konrad Bercovici • ss The Dial May ’21
175 • My Old Man • Ernest Hemingway • ss Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co., 1923
191 • Four Generations • Ruth Suckow • ss The American Mercury Jan ’24
206 • The Return • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Century May ’25
226 • An Army with Banners • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • nv Harper’s Aug ’25
255 • Haircut • Ring W. Lardner • ss Liberty Magazine Mar 28 ’25
269 • The Half Pint Flask • DuBose Heyward • ss The Bookman May ’27
288 • North Is Black • Oliver La Farge • ss The Dial Jan ’27
302 • Good Morning, Major • J. P. Marquand • nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 11 ’26
333 • A Telephone Call • Dorothy Parker • ss The Bookman Jan ’28
340 • Double Birthday • Willa Cather • nv The Forum Feb ’29
370 • Death of Red Peril • Walter D. Edmonds • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’28
383 • The Faithful Wife • Morley Callaghan • ss New Yorker Dec 28 ’29
389 • The Little Wife • William March • ss The Midland Jan-Feb ’30
403 • Rest Cure • Kay Boyle • ss
413 • That Evening Sun • William Faulkner • ss The American Mercury Mar ’31
434 • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
459 • One with Shakespeare • Martha Foley • ss
468 • A Pretty Cure Little Stunt • George Milburn • ss
478 • Sherrel • Whit Burnett • ss Story Jun-Jul ’31
487 • Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass • Manuel Komroff • ss Story Mar-Apr ’23
491 • Shepherd of the Lord • Peter Neagoe • ss Story Nov-Dec ’31
512 • Fame Takes the J Car • George Albee • ss Story Dec ’32
526 • Helen, I Love You! • James T. Farrell • ss The American Mercury Jul ’32
535 • Ike and Us Moons • Naomi Shumway • ss Story Oct ’32
553 • Horse Thief • Erskine Caldwell • ss Vanity Fair, 1933
561 • Winter • Dorothy M’Cleary • nv
588 • Death and Transfiguration • Alan Marshall • ss
606 • Outside Yuma • Benjamin Appel • ss
614 • The Overcoat • Sally Benson • ss
620 • Resurrection of a Life • William Saroyan • ss
633 • This Town and Salamanca • Allan Seeger • ss
645 • Man on a Road • Albert Maltz • ss (Senior) Scholastic Mar 5 ’38
655 • A Life in the Day of a Writer • Tess Slesinger • ss
669 • American Nocturne • Robert Whitehand • ss, 1935
678 • Only the Dead Know Brooklyn • Thomas Wolfe • ss New Yorker Jun 15 ’35
685 • Marching Orders • I. V. Morris • nv
716 • Hair • Jesse Stuart • ss
734 • The Iron City • Lovell Thompson • nv Story, 1936
766 • Christ in Concrete • Pietro di Donato • ss Esquire, 1935
783 • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
796 • Corporal Hardy • Richard Ely Danielson • ss
810 • Bright and Morning Star • Richard Wright • nv
851 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
869 • Study Guides • Wilbur L. Schramm • ms
In Sunshine or in Shadow ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher (Delta 0-385-32399-9, Feb ’99, $21.95, 320pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

• What Big Teeth • Ivy Bannister • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Ellie’s Ring • Sheila Barrett • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Taximen Are Invisible • Maeve Binchy • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Windfalls • Mary Rose Callaghan • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Breaking • Kate Cruise O’Brien • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Do the Decent Thing • Ita Daly • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• A Girl Like You • Margaret Dolan • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• The Orphan • Mary Dorcey • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Bishop’s House • Mary Gordon • ss Harper’s Jan ’97
• The Facts of Life • Katy Hayes • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Son, Moon and Stars • Jennifer Johnston • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Late Opening at the Last Chance Saloon • Marian Keyes • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Commencements • Mary Leland • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Dwelling Below the Skies • Liz McManus • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Lucy’s Story • Mary Maher • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Clods • Mary Morrissy • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Passover • Mary O’Donnell • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Ripples • Patricia Scanlan • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999
• Polygamy • Gaye Shortland • ss In Sunshine or in Shadow, ed. Kate Cruise O’Brien & Mary Maher, Delta, 1999

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