Project Gutenberg 2025-07-02 Public domain in the USA. 1628 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph) 1890 1941 Harrington, Joseph F. O'Brien, E. J. (Edward Joseph) The best short stories of 1922, and the yearbook of the American short story $aBoston :$bSmall, Maynard & Company, $c1921, copyright 1922, copyright 1923. The dark city / by Conrad Aiken -- I'm a fool / by Sherwood Anderson -- The death of Murdo / by Konrad Bercovici -- An unknown warrior / by Susan M. Boogher -- The helpless ones / by Frederick Booth -- Forest cover / by Edna Bryner -- Natalka's portion / by Rose Gollup Cohen -- The shame of gold / by Charles J. Finger -- Two for a cent / by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- John the Baptist / by Waldo Frank -- Mendel Marantz: housewife / by David Freedman -- Belshazzar's letter / by Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- Winkelburg / by Ben Hecht -- The token / by Joseph Hergesheimer -- The resurrection and the life / by William Jitro -- The golden honeymoon / by Ring W. Lardner -- He laughed at the gods / by James Oppenheim -- In the metropolis / by Benjamin Rosenblatt -- From the other side of the south / by Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The coffin / by Clement Wood. Carol Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The best short stories of 1922, and the yearbook of the American short story" by Edward J. O’Brien is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The anthology gathers notable American magazine fiction alongside a “yearbook” of trends, indexes, and honors, framed by the editor’s critical introduction. It showcases a broad range of styles—from modernist experiments to popular narratives—charting themes of work, family, war, identity, and a shifting national mood. The opening of the volume offers front matter and O’Brien’s introduction, where he warns of “disintegration” in American letters—both the lazy commercial formula and shallow imitation of European avant-gardes—then explains his selection tests of substance and form and his star-based ranking. The fiction begins with The Dark City, a twilight study of a suburban father whose evening routines and gardening yield to a recurring vision of a silent, menacing city; continues with I’m a Fool, a stablehand’s rueful confession after lying about his identity to impress a girl at the races; and follows with The Death of Murdo, in which a Romani chief, newly healed, engineers a fatal test to secure his tribe’s faith in a successor. It then turns to An Unknown Warrior, opening on a lone soldier entering a snow-shrouded Westminster Abbey. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bestshortstories00unse/page/n7/mode/2up 20221219173213obrien 1921 US Reading ease score: 84.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories, American American fiction -- 20th century Short stories -- 20th century -- Bibliography Short stories -- 20th century -- Indexes PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: American Literature 1127678 2025-07-30T08:07:57.457271 text/html 1102933 2025-07-02T11:43:04 text/html 761096 2025-07-30T08:08:18.454722 application/epub+zip 758562 2025-07-30T08:08:01.386228 application/epub+zip 538064 2025-07-30T08:07:59.229277 application/epub+zip 1579243 2025-07-30T08:08:28.539618 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1514270 2025-07-30T08:08:16.511724 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 894932 2025-07-30T08:07:53.193334 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 874835 2025-07-02T11:43:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15822 2025-07-30T08:08:28.758594 application/rdf+xml 10665 2025-07-30T08:07:59.661256 image/jpeg 1733 2025-07-30T08:07:59.448243 image/jpeg 1446666 2025-07-30T08:07:57.550276 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia