The Best Short Stories of 1924
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The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology:
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| Title |
Author |
(Originally Published In) |
|---|---|---|
| Champlin | Morgan Burke | (The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1924) |
| Billy | Mildred Cram | (Harper’s Sep 1924, as “The Face That Launched a Thousand Quips”) |
| Phantom Adventure | Floyd Dell | (The Century Magazine Dec 1923) |
| The Cracked Teapot | Charles Caldwell Dobie | (Harper’s Jan 1924) |
| The Last Dive | Carlos Drake | (Transatlantic Review Jul 1924) |
| Adventures of Andrew Lang | Charles J. Finger | (The Century Magazine Jul 1924) |
| The Biography of Blade | Zona Gale | (The Century Magazine Jul 1924) |
| Corputt | Tupper Greenwald | (The Midland Oct 1923) |
| The Young Men Go Down | Harry Hervey | (The Nation Jan 30 1924) |
| The Lesser Gift | Leonard L. Hess | (Phantasmus Jun 1924) |
| Grudges | Rupert Hughes | (Liberty Jul 12 1924) |
| A Postscript to Divorce | Gouverneur Morris | (Hearst’s International Sep 1924) |
| Forgiveness | Lizette Woodworth Reese | (Outlook Jul 16 1924) |
| Nocturne: A Red Shawl | Roger Sergel | (Phantasmus May 1924) |
| The Black Laugh | A. B. Shiffrin | (The American Hebrew Aug 8 1924) |
| Four Generations | Ruth Suckow | (The American Mercury Jan 1924) |
| Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge | Melvin Van Den Bark | (The Midland Jun-Aug 1924) |
| The Poet | Warren L. Van Dine | (The Midland Jan 1924) |
| In a Thicket | Glenway Wescott | (The Dial Jun 1924) |
| Shoes | Frances Gilchrist Wood | (Harper’s Dec 1923) |
| For a Beautiful Relationship | Wentzle Ruml, III | (The Kenyon Review Spr 1945) |
| The King’s Daughter | Gladys Schmitt | (Story Nov/Dec 1945) |
| The Bridge | Irwin Stark | (The Antioch Review Sum 1945) |
| The Woman Who Was Loved | James Stern | (Harper’s Bazaar Jan 1945) |
| Mrs. Razor | James Still | (Atlantic Monthly Jul 1945) |
| The Scout Master | Peter Taylor | (The Partisan Review Sum 1945) |
| The Other Margaret | Lionel Trilling | (The Partisan Review Fll 1945) |
| Love Affair | Henrietta Weigel | (The Kenyon Review Win 1945) |
| The Singing Lesson | Jessamyn West | (Harper’s Jan 1945) |
| Death in a Cathedral | Glennyth Woods | (Twice a Year 1945) |
| A Ship to Tarshish | William Zukerman | (Prairie Schooner Sum 1944) |
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