The Best Short Stories of 1929

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>“Hound of Heaven”</td> <td>Sarah Addington</td> <td>(The Forum Mar 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Lost Novel</td> <td>Sherwood Anderson</td> <td>(Scribner’s Sep 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Country Doctor</td> <td>Ivan Beede</td> <td>(Transition Feb 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>“There’s Money in Poetry”</td> <td>Konrad Bercovici</td> <td>(Harper’s Oct 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Soldier Harmon</td> <td>Morley Callaghan</td> <td>(Scribner’s Aug 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Double Birthday</td> <td>Willa Cather</td> <td>(The Forum Feb 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Wild Plums</td> <td>Grace Stone Coates</td> <td>(The Frontier Mar 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Death of Red Peril</td> <td>Walter D. Edmonds</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Nov 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>First Oboe</td> <td>James Webber Glover</td> <td>(The Forum Jan 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fame for Mr. Beatty</td> <td>James Norman Hall</td> <td>(The Tanager May 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Power of Horizon</td> <td>Leon Srabian Herald</td> <td>(The Dial Apr 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alcantara</td> <td>MacGregor Jenkins</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Feb 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Manicure</td> <td>Margaret Leech</td> <td>(Harper’s Oct 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Potato Picking</td> <td>Robert McAlmon</td> <td>(Transition Feb 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>His Friend the Pig</td> <td>Wilson McCarty</td> <td>(The Dial Jan 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>I Have Letters for Marjorie</td> <td>Edward L. McKenna</td> <td>(McClure’s Jun 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Light Without Heat</td> <td>Robert Mullen</td> <td>(The Dial May 1929)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>“Cunjur”</td> <td>Pernet Patterson</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Dec 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Guilty Woman</td> <td>Glenway Wescott</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Aug 1928)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Venus</td> <td>William Carlos Williams</td> <td>(The Dial Jun 1928)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Year

1929

Language

English

Series

The Best [American] Short Stories

Publisher

Dodd, Mead and Co

Editions

1

ISBN

9789997371508

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