Author: Edward J. O'Brien

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781330805152

Excerpt from The Best Short Stories of 1918: And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors, publishers, and literary agents: To the Editor of The All-Story Weekly, The Frank A. Munsey Company, Harper and Brothers, The Story-Press Corporation, the Editor of The Bookman, Dodd, Mead Company, Inc., The Curtis Publishing Company, The Atlantic Monthly Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, The Pictorial Review Company, The Stratford Journal, The Century Company, P. F. Collier Son, Inc., Captain Achmed Abdullah, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Charles Caldwell Dobie, Mr. George Humphrey, Captain Arthur Johnson, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, Mr. Harrison Rhodes, Mrs. Fleta Campbell Springer, Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mr. Edward C. Venable, Mrs. Mary Heaton O'Brien, Mrs. Frances Gilchrist Wood, Captain Gordon Hall Gerould, Miss Katharine Holland Brown, Mr. Burton Kline, Mrs. Mary Mitchell Freedley, Miss Katharine Prescott Moseley, Mr. Julian Street, and Mr. Paul R. Reynolds (on behalf of Mr. William Dudley Pelley). Acknowledgments are specially due to the Boston Evening Transcript and The New York Tribute for permission to reprint the large body of material previously published in their 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 published during 1919 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 Bass River Cape Cody Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.