The Best Short Stories of 1923

The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title<br></th> <th>Author<br></th> <th>(Originally<br>Published In)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Way for a Sailor</td> <td>Bill Adams</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Apr 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Man’s Story</td> <td>Sherwood Anderson</td> <td>(The Dial Sep 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mr. Cardeezer</td> <td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td> <td>(Harper’s May 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Seed</td> <td>Konrad Bercovici</td> <td>(Harper’s Aug 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Beyond the Cross</td> <td>Dana Burnet</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Feb 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ignition</td> <td>Valma Clark</td> <td>(Scribner’s Jan 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Chocolate Hyena</td> <td>Irvin S. Cobb</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Jul 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Samovar</td> <td>John Cournos</td> <td>(The Dial Jun 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Reina</td> <td>Theodore Dreiser</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Sep 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Home Girl</td> <td>Edna Ferber</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Nov 1922)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Button</td> <td>Henry Goodman</td> <td>(Clay Sum 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>My Old Man</td> <td>Ernest Hemingway</td> <td>(Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co. 1923; given as by Ernest Hemenway.)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Seven Candles</td> <td>Fannie Hurst</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Sep 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Today Tomorrow</td> <td>Margaret Prescott Montague</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Aug 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Contract of Corporal Twing</td> <td>Solon K. Stewart</td> <td>(Harper’s Feb 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>By Due Process of Law</td> <td>F. J. Stimson</td> <td>(Scribner’s Apr 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Renters</td> <td>Ruth Suckow</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Aug 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Blood-Burning Moon</td> <td>Jean Toomer</td> <td>(Prairie Mar-Apr 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Promise</td> <td>Mary Heaton Vorse</td> <td>(Harper’s Jul 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Wallow of the Sea</td> <td>Mary Heaton Vorse</td> <td>(Harper’s Aug 1921)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Year

1923

Series

The Best [American] Short Stories

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co

Editions

1

ISBN

9789997371362

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