The Best Short Stories of 1926

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>Carrie Snyder</td> <td>Barry Benefield</td> <td>(Woman’s Home Companion May 1926, as “With Banners Blowing”)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Maudie</td> <td>Ada Jack Carver</td> <td>(Harper’s Jul 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Glass Eye of Throgmorton</td> <td>Donald Corley</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Jun 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Take the Stand, Please</td> <td>Chester T. Crowell</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post Aug 28 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bound for the Rio Grande</td> <td>A. E. Dingle</td> <td>(Liberty Dec 20 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Query</td> <td>Henry Walbridge Dudley</td> <td>(The Midland Jan 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Symphonesque</td> <td>Arthur Huff Fauset</td> <td>(Opportunity Jun 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Evening</td> <td>Zona Gale</td> <td>(The Bookman Dec 1925)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Wheels</td> <td>Tupper Greenwald</td> <td>(The Midland Feb 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Undefeated</td> <td>Ernest Hemingway</td> <td>(This Quarter Fll 1925)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Christian Bite</td> <td>Manuel Komroff</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Mar 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Then Christs Fought Hard</td> <td>Milutin Krunich</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Dec 1925)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Travelogue</td> <td>Ring W. Lardner</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan May 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The First Stone</td> <td>Grace Sartwell Mason</td> <td>(Harper’s Aug 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grimaldi</td> <td>Susan Meriwether</td> <td>(The Junior League Bulletin Jan 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Tale from the Grave</td> <td>Ira V. Morris, Jr.</td> <td>(The Calendar of Modern Letters Feb 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Extra! Extra!</td> <td>Robert E. Sherwood</td> <td>(Scribner’s Jul 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Out of the Wind</td> <td>Wilbur Daniel Steele</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Oct 1925)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Other Road</td> <td>Edward L. Strater</td> <td>(Scribner’s Mar 1926)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shoes</td> <td>Frances Gilchrist Wood</td> <td>(Harper’s Dec 1923)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Year

1926

Series

The Best [American] Short Stories

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co

Editions

1

ISBN

9789997371430

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