O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
Free DownloadENGLAND TO AMERICA. By Margaret Prescott Montague"FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO." By Wilbur Daniel SteeleTHEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL. By Ben Ames WilliamsON STRIKE. By Albert Payson Terhune.THE ELEPHANT REMEMBERS. By Edison MarshallTURKEY RED. By Frances Gilchrist WoodFIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. By Melville Davisson PostTHE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON. By Thomas Grant Springer"HUMORESQUE." By Fannie HurstTHE LUBBENY KISS. By Louise Rice.THE TRIAL IN TOM BELCHER'S STORE. By Samuel A. DerieuxPORCELAIN CUPS. By James Branch CabellTHE HIGH COST OF CONSCIENCE. By Beatrice RavenelTHE KITCHEN GODS. By G.F. AlsopAPRIL 25TH, AS USUAL. By Edna Ferber
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an are represented by spare sheaves. Again, a number of new
and promising writers have not quite attained sureness of touch;
although that they are acquiring it is manifest in the work of Ben Ames
Williams, Edison Marshall, Frances Wood, Samuel Derieux, John Russell,
Beatrice Ravenel and Myra Sawhill. Too frequently, there is "no story":
a series of episodes however charmingly strung out is not a story; a
sketch, however clever or humorous, is not a story; an essay, however
wisely expounding a truth, is not a story. So patent are these facts,
they are threadbare from repetition; yet of them succeeding aspirants
seem to be as ignorant as were their predecessors--who at length found
knowledge. For obvious reasons, names of authors who succeed in a
certain literary form, but who produce no story are omitted.
Again, some stories just miss the highest mark. A certain one, praised by a magazine editor as the best of the year, suffers in the opinion of the Committee, or part of the Committee, from an introduction
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