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The Best Short Stories of 1924

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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>Champlin</td> <td>Morgan Burke</td> <td>(The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Billy</td> <td>Mildred Cram</td> <td>(Harper’s Sep 1924, as “The Face That Launched a Thousand Quips”)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phantom Adventure</td> <td>Floyd Dell</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Dec 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Cracked Teapot</td> <td>Charles Caldwell Dobie</td> <td>(Harper’s Jan 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Last Dive</td> <td>Carlos Drake</td> <td>(Transatlantic Review Jul 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Adventures of Andrew Lang</td> <td>Charles J. Finger</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Jul 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Biography of Blade</td> <td>Zona Gale</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Jul 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Corputt</td> <td>Tupper Greenwald</td> <td>(The Midland Oct 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Young Men Go Down</td> <td>Harry Hervey</td> <td>(The Nation Jan 30 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Lesser Gift</td> <td>Leonard L. Hess</td> <td>(Phantasmus Jun 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grudges</td> <td>Rupert Hughes</td> <td>(Liberty Jul 12 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Postscript to Divorce</td> <td>Gouverneur Morris</td> <td>(Hearst’s International Sep 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Forgiveness</td> <td>Lizette Woodworth Reese</td> <td>(Outlook Jul 16 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nocturne: A Red Shawl</td> <td>Roger Sergel</td> <td>(Phantasmus May 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Black Laugh</td> <td>A. B. Shiffrin</td> <td>(The American Hebrew Aug 8 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Four Generations</td> <td>Ruth Suckow</td> <td>(The American Mercury Jan 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge</td> <td>Melvin Van Den Bark</td> <td>(The Midland Jun-Aug 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Poet</td> <td>Warren L. Van Dine</td> <td>(The Midland Jan 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>In a Thicket</td> <td>Glenway Wescott</td> <td>(The Dial Jun 1924)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shoes</td> <td>Frances Gilchrist Wood</td> <td>(Harper’s Dec 1923)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>For a Beautiful Relationship</td> <td>Wentzle Ruml, III</td> <td>(The Kenyon Review Spr 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The King’s Daughter</td> <td>Gladys Schmitt</td> <td>(Story Nov/Dec 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Bridge</td> <td>Irwin Stark</td> <td>(The Antioch Review Sum 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Woman Who Was Loved</td> <td>James Stern</td> <td>(Harper’s Bazaar Jan 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mrs. Razor</td> <td>James Still</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Jul 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Scout Master</td> <td>Peter Taylor</td> <td>(The Partisan Review Sum 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Other Margaret</td> <td>Lionel Trilling</td> <td>(The Partisan Review Fll 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Love Affair</td> <td>Henrietta Weigel</td> <td>(The Kenyon Review Win 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Singing Lesson</td> <td>Jessamyn West</td> <td>(Harper’s Jan 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Death in a Cathedral</td> <td>Glennyth Woods</td> <td>(Twice a Year 1945)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Ship to Tarshish</td> <td>William Zukerman</td> <td>(Prairie Schooner Sum 1944)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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