The Best Short Stories of 1920
The Best Short Stories of 1920
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Free DownloadThe Other Woman.By Sherwood Anderson Gargoyle.By Edwina Stanton Babcock Ghitza.By Konrad Bercovici The Life of Five Points.By Edna Clare Bryner The Signal Tower.By Wadsworth Camp The Parting Genius.By Helen Coale Crew Habakkuk.By Katharine Fullerton Gerould The Judgment of Vulcan.By Lee Foster Hartman The Stick-in-the-Muds.By Rupert Hughes His Job.By Grace Sartwell Mason The Rending.By James Oppenheim The Dummy-Chucker.By Arthur Somers Roche Butterflies.By Rose Sidney The Rotter.By Fleta Campbell Springer Out of Exile.By Wilbur Daniel Steele The Three Telegrams.By Ethel Storm The Roman Bath.By John T. Wheelwright Amazement.By Stephen French Whitman Sheener.By Ben Ames Williams Turkey Red.By Frances Gilchrist Wood
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and organised criticism at its best would be nothing more than dead criticism, as all dogmatic interpretation of life is always dead. What has interested me, to the exclusion of other things, is the fresh, living current which flows through the best of our work, and the psychological and imaginative reality which our writers have conferred upon it.
No substance is of importance in fiction, unless it is organic substance, that is to say, substance in which the pulse of life is beating. Inorganic fiction has been our curse in the past, and bids fair to remain so, unless we exercise much greater artistic discrimination than we display at present.
The present record covers the period from October, 1919, to September, 1920, inclusive. During this period, I have sought to select from the stories published in American magazines those which have rendered life imaginatively in organic substance and artistic form. Substance is something achieved by the artist in every act of creation, rather than somethi
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