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The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology:


Title
Author
(Originally
Published In)
The Sacrificial Altar Gertrude Atherton (Harper's Monthly Aug 1916)
Miss Willett Barry Benefield (The Century Magazine Sep 1916)
Supers Frederick Booth (Seven Arts Dec 1916)
Fog Dana Burnet (McBride's Feb 1916)
Ma's Pretties Francis Buzzell (Pictorial Review Aug 1916)
The Great Auk Irvin S. Cobb (The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 1916)
The Lost Phoebe Theodore Dreiser (The Century Magazine Apr 1916)
The Silent Infare Armistead C. Gordon (Scribner's Mar 1916)
The Cat of the Cane-Brake Frederick Stuart Greene (Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1916)
Making Port Richard Matthews Hallet (Every Week Mar 20 1916)
"Ice Water, Pl-!" Fannie Hurst (Collier's Oct 21 1916)
Little Selves Mary Lerner (Atlantic Monthly Sep 1916)
The Sun Chaser Jeannette Marks (Pictorial Review Nov 1916)
At the End of the Road Walter J. Muilenburg (The Forum May 1916)
The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights Albert Du Verney Pentz (Boston Evening Transcript Nov 7 1916)
The Menorah Benjamin Rosenblatt (The Bellman May 6 1916)
Penance Elsie Singmaster (Pictorial Review Oct 1916)
Feet of Gold Gordon Arthur Smith (Scribner's Aug 1916)
Down on Their Knees Wilbur Daniel Steele (Harper's Jul 1916)
Half-Past Ten Alice L. Tildesley (The Black Cat Aug 1916)
Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
472

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Cover of: The Best American Short Stories Of 1916
The Best American Short Stories Of 1916: And The Yearbook Of The American Short Story
Aug 10, 2009, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Cover of: The Best Short Stories of 1916
Cover of: The Best Short Stories of 1916
The Best Short Stories of 1916: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
June 1916, Dodd, Mead and Co
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

The sacrificial altar -- Gertrude Atherton
Miss Willett -- Barry Benefield
Supers -- Frederick Booth
Fog -- Dana Burnet
Ma's pretties -- Francis Buzzell
The great auk -- Irvin S. Cobb
The lost Phoebe -- Theodore Dreiser
The silent infare -- Armistead C. Gordon
The cat of the cane-brake -- Frederick Stuart Greene
Making port -- Richard Matthews Hallet
"Ice water, pl--!" -- Fannie Hurst
Little selves -- Mary Lerner
The sun chaser -- Jeannette Marks
At the end of the road -- Walter J. Muilenburg
The big stranger on Dorchester Heights -- Albert Du Verney Pentz
The menorah -- Benjamin Rosenblatt
Penance -- Elsie Singmaster
Feet of gold -- Gordon Arthur Smith
Down on their knees -- Wilbur Daniel Steele
Half-past ten -- Alice L. Tildesley.

Edition Notes

Series
The Best [American] Short Stories
Copyright Date
1916

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.08

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
4 preliminary leaves [vii]-xii pages, 1 leaf, 1-472 pages, 1 leaf
Number of pages
472

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27931840M
Internet Archive
bestshortstories0000obri_q6d3
OCLC/WorldCat
1926789

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