Title: The Best Short Stories of 1923
Description: The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology:
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    <th>Title<br></th>
    <th>Author<br></th>
    <th>(Originally<br>Published In)</th>
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    <td>Way for a Sailor</td>
    <td>Bill Adams</td>
    <td>(Pictorial Review Apr 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Man’s Story</td>
    <td>Sherwood Anderson</td>
    <td>(The Dial Sep 1923)</td>
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    <td>Mr. Cardeezer</td>
    <td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td>
    <td>(Harper’s May 1923)</td>
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    <td>Seed</td>
    <td>Konrad Bercovici</td>
    <td>(Harper’s Aug 1923)</td>
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    <td>Beyond the Cross</td>
    <td>Dana Burnet</td>
    <td>(Pictorial Review Feb 1923)</td>
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    <td>Ignition</td>
    <td>Valma Clark</td>
    <td>(Scribner’s Jan 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Chocolate Hyena</td>
    <td>Irvin S. Cobb</td>
    <td>(Cosmopolitan Jul 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Samovar</td>
    <td>John Cournos</td>
    <td>(The Dial Jun 1923)</td>
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    <td>Reina</td>
    <td>Theodore Dreiser</td>
    <td>(The Century Magazine Sep 1923)</td>
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    <td>Home Girl</td>
    <td>Edna Ferber</td>
    <td>(Pictorial Review Nov 1922)</td>
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    <td>Button</td>
    <td>Henry Goodman</td>
    <td>(Clay Sum 1923)</td>
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    <td>My Old Man</td>
    <td>Ernest Hemingway</td>
    <td>(Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co. 1923; given as by Ernest Hemenway.)</td>
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    <td>Seven Candles</td>
    <td>Fannie Hurst</td>
    <td>(Cosmopolitan Sep 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Today Tomorrow</td>
    <td>Margaret Prescott Montague</td>
    <td>(Atlantic Monthly Aug 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Contract of Corporal Twing</td>
    <td>Solon K. Stewart</td>
    <td>(Harper’s Feb 1923)</td>
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    <td>By Due Process of Law</td>
    <td>F. J. Stimson</td>
    <td>(Scribner’s Apr 1923)</td>
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    <td>Renters</td>
    <td>Ruth Suckow</td>
    <td>(The Century Magazine Aug 1923)</td>
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    <td>Blood-Burning Moon</td>
    <td>Jean Toomer</td>
    <td>(Prairie Mar-Apr 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Promise</td>
    <td>Mary Heaton Vorse</td>
    <td>(Harper’s Jul 1923)</td>
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    <td>The Wallow of the Sea</td>
    <td>Mary Heaton Vorse</td>
    <td>(Harper’s Aug 1921)</td>
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