The Best Short Stories of 1928

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>The Guardeen Angel</td> <td>Frederick Hazlitt Brennan</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Dec 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Cat That Lived at the Ritz</td> <td>Louis Bromfield</td> <td>(Harper’s Bazaar Oct 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Seven Blocks Apart</td> <td>Katharine Brush</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Jan 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Country Passion</td> <td>Morley Callaghan</td> <td>(Transition Mar 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>At the Sign of the Three Daughters</td> <td>Dorothy Canfield</td> <td>(The Delineator May 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>John of God, the Water Carrier</td> <td>María Cristina Chambers</td> <td>(The Monthly Criterion Oct 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>No Dam’ Yankee</td> <td>Irvin S. Cobb</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Nov 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The First of Mr. Blue</td> <td>Myles Connolly</td> <td>(Columbia Mar 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Swamper</td> <td>Walter D. Edmonds</td> <td>(The Dial Mar 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Home to Mother’s</td> <td>Eleanor E. Harris</td> <td>(Scribner’s Aug 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lady Wipers—of Ypres</td> <td>Llewellyn Hughes</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Jan 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Give This Little Girl a Hand</td> <td>Fannie Hurst</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Feb 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Battered Armor</td> <td>Edward L. McKenna</td> <td>(McClure’s Dec 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Telephone Call</td> <td>Dorothy Parker</td> <td>(The Bookman Jan 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fences</td> <td>L. Paul</td> <td>(Adventure Dec 15 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>On the Mountain-Side</td> <td>Elizabeth Madox Roberts</td> <td>(The American Mercury Aug 1927)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Jew</td> <td>Edwin Seaver</td> <td>(The New Republic Jan 25 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Romantic Sailor</td> <td>James Stevens</td> <td>(The Frontier May 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Midwestern Primative</td> <td>Ruth Suckow</td> <td>(Harper’s Mar 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>So-Long, Oldtimer</td> <td>Edmund Ware</td> <td>(Ladies Home Journal Aug 1927)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Year

1928

Language

English

Series

The Best [American] Short Stories

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co

Editions

1

ISBN

9789997371485

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