Edward J. O’Brien combed a year of American magazines and gathered the stories he judged best, from Edna Ferber’s The Gay Old Dog to Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers, in which two farm wives quietly read the evidence the sheriff misses. Irvin S. Cobb, Thomas Beer and others follow, with O’Brien’s yearbook of magazines and stories at the back.
A snapshot of American short fiction in the war year, its racial language very much of 1917. Download the free EPUB.