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The Best Short Stories of 1919

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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 Kitchen Gods</td> <td>G. F. Alsop</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Sep 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>An Awakening</td> <td>Sherwood Anderson</td> <td>(The Little Review Dec 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Willum’s Vanilla</td> <td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td> <td>(Harper’s Apr 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Night Among the Horses</td> <td>Djuna Barnes</td> <td>(The Little Review Dec 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Long, Long Ago</td> <td>Frederick Orin Bartlett</td> <td>(The Bellman Jan 11 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dishes</td> <td>Agnes Mary Brownell</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Apr 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Blood-Red One</td> <td>Maxwell Struthers Burt</td> <td>(Scribner’s Nov 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Wedding-Jest</td> <td>James Branch Cabell</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Sep 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Wrists on the Door</td> <td>Horace Fish</td> <td>(Everybody’s Magazine May 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>“Government Goat”</td> <td>Susan Glaspell</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Apr 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Stone</td> <td>Henry Goodman</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Feb 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>To the Bitter End</td> <td>Richard Matthews Hallet</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Meeker Ritual</td> <td>Joseph Hergesheimer</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Jun 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Centenarian</td> <td>Will E. Ingersoll</td> <td>(Harper’s May 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Messengers</td> <td>Calvin Johnson</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mrs. Drainger’s Veil</td> <td>Howard Mumford Jones</td> <td>(The Smart Set Dec 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Under a Wine-Glass</td> <td>Ellen N. La Motte</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Dec 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Thing of Beauty</td> <td>Elias Lieberman</td> <td>(The American Hebrew Jun 27 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Other Room</td> <td>Mary Heaton Vorse</td> <td>(McCall’s Apr 1919)</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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