In 1918 the Society of Arts and Sciences in New York founded an annual prize in memory of O. Henry, and this volume collects the stories chosen in its first year. Blanche Colton Williams introduces the award and the judging, and the selection ranges over war, strikes, revenge and the frontier, with stories such as The Elephant Remembers and Turkey Red.
A snapshot of American magazine fiction at the end of the First World War and the start of a long tradition. Download the free EPUB.