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The best short stories 1938 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Edward J. O'Brien.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1938.Description: xvi, 403 p. ; 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS643 .B47 1938
Contents:
Mr. Sycamore / Robert Ayre -- Blind man's buff / Libby Benedict -- A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Mr. Mergenthwirker's lobblies / Nelson S. Bond -- The cheat's remorse / Morley Callaghan -- The brothers / John Cheever -- What hurts is that I was in a hurry / Vladimir Cherkasski -- Dear Mr. Flessheimer / Whitfield Cook -- Niggers are such liars / Richard Paulett Creyke -- Christ in concrete / Pietro di Donato -- Black wind and lightning / Michael Fessier -- Turkey hunt / Alberta Pierson Hannum -- The whole world is outside / Manuel Komroff -- The girl / Meridel Le Sueur -- She always wanted shoes / Don Ludlow -- Little bride / Dorothy McCleary -- The last meeting / William March -- To those who wait / Elick Moll -- The Spaniard / Prudencio de Pereda -- The Russian Idyll / Frederick Prokosch -- A real American fellow / George Thorp Rayner -- The haunted palace / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Boy in the summer sun / Mark Schorer -- Pro arte / Allan Seager -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Huey, the engineer / Jesse Stuart -- The amateurs / Harvey B. Swados -- Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren -- Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty -- Off the highway / Ira Wolfert.

Mr. Sycamore / Robert Ayre -- Blind man's buff / Libby Benedict -- A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Mr. Mergenthwirker's lobblies / Nelson S. Bond -- The cheat's remorse / Morley Callaghan -- The brothers / John Cheever -- What hurts is that I was in a hurry / Vladimir Cherkasski -- Dear Mr. Flessheimer / Whitfield Cook -- Niggers are such liars / Richard Paulett Creyke -- Christ in concrete / Pietro di Donato -- Black wind and lightning / Michael Fessier -- Turkey hunt / Alberta Pierson Hannum -- The whole world is outside / Manuel Komroff -- The girl / Meridel Le Sueur -- She always wanted shoes / Don Ludlow -- Little bride / Dorothy McCleary -- The last meeting / William March -- To those who wait / Elick Moll -- The Spaniard / Prudencio de Pereda -- The Russian Idyll / Frederick Prokosch -- A real American fellow / George Thorp Rayner -- The haunted palace / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Boy in the summer sun / Mark Schorer -- Pro arte / Allan Seager -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Huey, the engineer / Jesse Stuart -- The amateurs / Harvey B. Swados -- Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren -- Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty -- Off the highway / Ira Wolfert.

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