The Best Short Stories of 1919

A 1904 anthology that follows the American short story from Rip Van Winkle through Poe, Hawthorne and Bret Harte. The editor's opening essay explains how the form took shape.

Charles Sears Baldwin (Editor)

Twenty two classic American tales in one volume, from The Gold-Bug and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to stories by Bret Harte, O. Henry and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. A quick tour of the form at its most readable.

William Patten (Editor)

Five stories from the 1884 series that gathered the best American magazine fiction of its day, opening with Bayard Taylor's Who Was She? Short, light and full of Gilded Age manners.

Various Authors

The first volume of the yearly Best Short Stories series, with the editor's picks from that year's magazines and a yearbook of the American short story. Includes Fannie Hurst, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Ben Hecht.

Edward J. O'Brien (Editor)