The second volume of the O. Henry awards, founded in 1918 by the Society of Arts and Sciences, gathers the stories its committee judged the best published in American magazines in 1920. Blanche Colton Williams’s introduction explains the selection, and the contents run from prize-winners such as Each in His Generation to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comic The Camel’s Back.
A snapshot of the American short story at the start of the Jazz Age. Download the free EPUB.