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The best American short stories, 1940 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Edward J. O'Brien.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940.Description: xvii, 525 p. ; 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS643 .B47 1940
Contents:
Anschluss / Kay Boyle -- The people vs. Abe Lathan, colored / Erskine Coldwell -- Getting on in the world / Morley Callaghan -- Roof sitter / Frances Eisenberg -- The fall of machine gun McGurk / James T. Farrell -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Design in Plaster / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury / Caroline Gordon -- Under the ridge / Ernest Hemingway -- The honey house / Mary King -- Death of an outcast / Manuel Komroff -- That fine place we had last year / Roderick Lull -- Your general does not sleep / Emilio Lussu -- Something jolly / Dorothy McCleary -- Kullan / Edita Morris -- The beautiful fire / I.V. Morris -- Family history / P.M. Pasinetti -- The way death comes / Prudencio de Pereda -- Herself / James Pooler -- The downward path of wisdom / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Presbyterian choir singers / William Saroyan -- Words without music / Michael Seide -- Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw -- The seven men of Rouen / George Slocombe -- Four worms turning / Morton Stern -- The two deaths of Kaspar Rausch / Hans Otto Storm -- Rich men / Jesse Stuart -- Beautifully and bravely / Harry Sylvester -- Night and the lost armies / Benedict Thielen -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Resurgam / Louis Zara.

Anschluss / Kay Boyle -- The people vs. Abe Lathan, colored / Erskine Coldwell -- Getting on in the world / Morley Callaghan -- Roof sitter / Frances Eisenberg -- The fall of machine gun McGurk / James T. Farrell -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Design in Plaster / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury / Caroline Gordon -- Under the ridge / Ernest Hemingway -- The honey house / Mary King -- Death of an outcast / Manuel Komroff -- That fine place we had last year / Roderick Lull -- Your general does not sleep / Emilio Lussu -- Something jolly / Dorothy McCleary -- Kullan / Edita Morris -- The beautiful fire / I.V. Morris -- Family history / P.M. Pasinetti -- The way death comes / Prudencio de Pereda -- Herself / James Pooler -- The downward path of wisdom / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Presbyterian choir singers / William Saroyan -- Words without music / Michael Seide -- Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw -- The seven men of Rouen / George Slocombe -- Four worms turning / Morton Stern -- The two deaths of Kaspar Rausch / Hans Otto Storm -- Rich men / Jesse Stuart -- Beautifully and bravely / Harry Sylvester -- Night and the lost armies / Benedict Thielen -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Resurgam / Louis Zara.

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