First-prize stories, 1919-1963
Subtitle: from the O. Henry Memorial awards
By: introduction by Harry Hansen
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 681
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction
Other titles: Prize stories : the O. Henry awards.; Prize stories
Description: 43 great American short stories -- an outstanding anthology of first-prize winners from the most famous series of annual prize short story collections.
Table of contents: title: 1919:; title: England to America  -- Margaret Prescott Montague -- 1920:; title: Each in his generation  -- Maxwell Struthers Burt -- 1921:; title: The heart of little Shikara  -- Edison Marshall -- 1922:; title: Snake doctor  -- Irvin S. Cobb -- 1923:; title: Prelude  -- Edgar Valentine Smith -- 1924:; title: The spring flight  -- Inez Haynes Irwin -- 1925:; title: Mr. Bisbee's princess  -- Julian Street -- 1926:; title: Bubbles  -- Wilbur Daniel Steele -- 1927:; title: Child of God  -- Roark Bradford -- 1926:; title: The parrot  -- Walter Duranty -- 1929:; title: Big blonde  -- Dorothy Parker -- 1930:; title: Dressing-up  -- W.R. Burnett -- 1931:; title: Can't cross Jordan by myself  -- Wilbur Daniel Steele -- 1932:; title: An end to dreams  -- Stephen Vincent Bénet -- 1933:; title: Gal young un  -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- 1934:; title: No more trouble for Jedwick  -- Louise Paul -- 1935:; title: The white horses of Vienna  -- Kay Boyle -- 1936:; title: Total stranger  -- James Gould Cozzens -- 1937:; title: The Devil and Daniel Webster  -- Stephen Vincent Bénet -- 1938:; title: The happiest man on earth  -- Albert Maltz -- 1939:; title: Barn burning  -- William Faulkner -- 1940:; title: Freedom's a hard-bought thing  -- Stephen Vincent Bénet -- 1941:; title: Defeat  -- Kay Boyle -- 1942:; title: The wide net  -- Eudora Welty -- 1943:; title: Livvie is back  -- Eudora Welty -- 1944:; title: Walking wounded  -- Irwin Shaw -- 1945:; title: The wind and the snow of winter  -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- 1946:; title: Bird song  -- John Mayo Goss -- 1947:; title: The white circle  -- John Bell Clayton -- 1948:; title: Shut a final door  -- Truman Capote -- 1949:; title: A courtship  -- WIlliam Faulkner -- 1950:; title: The blue-winged teal  -- Wallace Stegner -- 1951:; title: The hunters  -- Harris Downey -- 1954:; title: The Indian feather  -- Thomas Mabry -- 1955:; title: In the zoo  -- Jean Stafford -- 1956:; title: The country husband  -- John Cheever -- 1957:; title: Greenleaf  -- Flannery O'Connor -- 1958:; title: In sickness as in health  -- Martha Gellhorn -- 1959:; title: Venus, Cupid, folly and time  -- Peter Taylor -- 1960:; title: The ledge  -- Lawrence Sargent Hall -- 1961:; title: Tell me a riddle  -- Tillie Olsen -- 1962:; title: Holiday  -- Katherine Anne Porter -- 1963:; title: Everything that rises must converge -- Flannery O'Connor.