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Title: The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Author: Various
Editor: Edward J. O'Brien
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1921
AND THE
YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
EDITED BY
EDWARD J. O'BRIEN
EDITOR OF "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1915"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1916"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1917"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1918"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1919"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1920"
"THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH STORIES," ETC
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1920, by John T. Frederick, Charles J. Finger, The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., Charles
Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine Company, Harper & Brothers, and Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by The Boston Transcript Company.
Copyright, 1921, by B.W. Huebsch, The Century Company, John T. Frederick, George H. Doran Company, The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., The Pictorial Review Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, Harper & Brothers, Charles Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine Company, and Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Copyright, 1922, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, George H. Doran Co., Lincoln Colcord, Waldo Frank, Katharine
Fullerton Gerould, Doubleday, Page & Co., Glasgow, Susan Glaspell Cook, Richard Matthews Hallet,
Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel
Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Minor.
Copyright, 1922, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PRESS OF THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY
KENDALL SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE
THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1921
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TO A.E. COPPARD
BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to
the following authors, editors and publishers:
To the Editor of The Century Magazine, the Editor of The Bookman, the Editor of The Dial, the Editor ofThe
Pictorial Review, the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post, the Editor of The American Magazine, the Editor
of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of Good Housekeeping, the Editor of Harper's Magazine, the Editor ofThe
Cosmopolitan, the Editors of The Smart Set, The Editor of The Midland, Boni & Liveright, Inc., George H.
Doran Co., B.W. Huebsch, Doubleday, Page & Co., Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Maxwell
Struthers Burt, Irvin S. Cobb, Lincoln Colcord, Charles J. Finger, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel
Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles
Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Vorse.
Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript for permission to reprint the large body
of material previously published in its pages.
I shall be grateful to my readers for corrections, and particularly for suggestions leading to the wider
usefulness of this annual volume. In particular, I shall welcome the receipt, from authors, editors, and
publishers, of stories printed during the period between October, 1921 and September, 1922 inclusive, which
have qualities of distinction and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice. Such
communications may be addressed to me at Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, England.
E.J.O.
CONTENTS[1]
PAGE
Introduction.
By the Editor
xii
Brothers.
By Sherwood Anderson
3
(From The Bookman)
Fanutza.
By Konrad Bercovici
13
(From The Dial)
Experiment.
By Maxwell Struthers Burt
28
(From The Pictorial Review)
Darkness.
By Irvin S. Cobb
52
(From The Saturday Evening Post)
An Instrument of The Gods.
By Lincoln Colcord
82
(From The American Magazine)
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