The Best Short Stories of 1920

The Best Short Stories of 1920,
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Title: The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the
American Short Story
Author: Various
Editor: Edward J. O'Brien
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Language: English
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1920

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 GREAT MODERN ENGLISH STORIES,"
ETC.
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BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1919, by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Pictorial Review
Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, and Harper & Brothers.
Copyright, 1920, by The Boston Transcript Company.
Copyright, 1920, by Margaret C, Anderson, Harper & Brothers, The
Dial Publishing Company, Inc., The Metropolitan Magazine Company,
John T. Frederick, P. F. Collier & Son, Inc., Charles Scribner's Sons,
The International Magazine Company, and The Pictorial Review
Company.
Copyright, 1921, by Sherwood Anderson, Edwina Stanton Babcock,
Konrad Bercovici, Edna Clare Bryner, Charles Wadsworth Camp,
Helen Coale Crew, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Lee Foster Hartman,
Rupert Hughes, Grace Sartwell Mason, James Oppenheim, Arthur
Somers Roche, Rose Sidney, Fleta Campbell Springer, Wilbur Daniel
Steele, Ethel Dodd Thomas, John T. Wheelwright, Stephen French
Whitman, Ben Ames Williams, and Frances Gilchrist Wood.
Copyright, 1921, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.

TO
SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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 Miss Margaret C. Anderson, the Editor of Harper's Magazine, the
Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Metropolitan, Mr. John T.
Frederick, the Editor of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of Collier's
Weekly, the Editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Editor of The
Pictorial Review, the Curtis Publishing Company, Mr. Sherwood
Anderson, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Konrad Bercovici, Miss
Edna Clare Bryner, Mr. Wadsworth Camp, Mrs. Helen Coale Crew,
Mrs. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Mr. Lee Foster Hartman, Major
Rupert Hughes, Mrs. Grace Sartwell Mason, Mr. James Oppenheim,
Mr. Arthur Somers Roche, Mrs. Rose Sidney, Mrs. Fleta Campbell
Springer, Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mrs. A. E. Thomas, Mr. John T.
Wheelwright, Mr. Stephen French Whitman, Mr. Ben Ames Williams,
and Mrs. Frances Gilchrist Wood.
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, 1920
and September, 1921 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 xiii
#The Other Woman.# By Sherwood Anderson 3 (From The Little
Review)
#Gargoyle.# By Edwina Stanton Babcock 12 (From Harper's
Magazine)
#Ghitza.# By Konrad Bercovici 36 (From The Dial)
#The Life of Five Points.# By Edna Clare Bryner 49 (From The Dial)
#The Signal Tower.# By Wadsworth Camp 66 (From The
Metropolitan)
#The Parting Genius.# By Helen Coale Crew 83 (From The Midland)
#Habakkuk.# By Katharine Fullerton Gerould 90 (From Scribner's
Magazine)
#The Judgment of Vulcan.# By Lee Foster Hartman 116 (From
Harper's Magazine)
#The Stick-in-the-Muds.# By Rupert Hughes 148 (From Collier's
Weekly)
#His Job.# By Grace Sartwell Mason 169 (From Scribner's Magazine)
#The Rending.# By James Oppenheim 187 (From The Dial)
#The Dummy-Chucker.# By Arthur Somers Roche 198 (From The
Cosmopolitan)

#Butterflies.# By Rose Sidney 214 (From The Pictorial Review)
#The Rotter.# By Fleta Campbell Springer 236 (From Harper's
Magazine)
#Out of Exile.# By Wilbur Daniel Steele 266 (From The Pictorial
Review)
#The Three Telegrams.# By Ethel Storm 293 (From The Ladies' Home
Journal)
#The Roman Bath.# By John T. Wheelwright 312 (From Scribner's
Magazine)
#Amazement.# By Stephen French Whitman 320 (From Harper's
Magazine)
#Sheener.# By Ben Ames Williams 348 (From Collier's Weekly)
#Turkey Red.# By Frances Gilchrist Wood 359 (From The Pictorial
Review)
#The Yearbook of the American Short Story, October,