The Best Short Stories of 1928

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>The Guardeen Angel</td>
<td>Frederick Hazlitt Brennan</td>
<td>(Cosmopolitan Dec 1927)</td>
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<td>The Cat That Lived at the Ritz</td>
<td>Louis Bromfield</td>
<td>(Harper’s Bazaar Oct 1927)</td>
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<td>Seven Blocks Apart</td>
<td>Katharine Brush</td>
<td>(Cosmopolitan Jan 1928)</td>
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<td>A Country Passion</td>
<td>Morley Callaghan</td>
<td>(Transition Mar 1928)</td>
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<td>At the Sign of the Three Daughters</td>
<td>Dorothy Canfield</td>
<td>(The Delineator May 1928)</td>
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<td>John of God, the Water Carrier</td>
<td>María Cristina Chambers</td>
<td>(The Monthly Criterion Oct 1927)</td>
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<td>No Dam’ Yankee</td>
<td>Irvin S. Cobb</td>
<td>(Cosmopolitan Nov 1927)</td>
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<td>The First of Mr. Blue</td>
<td>Myles Connolly</td>
<td>(Columbia Mar 1928)</td>
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<td>The Swamper</td>
<td>Walter D. Edmonds</td>
<td>(The Dial Mar 1928)</td>
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<td>Home to Mother’s</td>
<td>Eleanor E. Harris</td>
<td>(Scribner’s Aug 1927)</td>
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<td>Lady Wipers—of Ypres</td>
<td>Llewellyn Hughes</td>
<td>(The Century Magazine Jan 1928)</td>
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<td>Give This Little Girl a Hand</td>
<td>Fannie Hurst</td>
<td>(Cosmopolitan Feb 1928)</td>
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<td>Battered Armor</td>
<td>Edward L. McKenna</td>
<td>(McClure’s Dec 1927)</td>
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<td>A Telephone Call</td>
<td>Dorothy Parker</td>
<td>(The Bookman Jan 1928)</td>
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<td>Fences</td>
<td>L. Paul</td>
<td>(Adventure Dec 15 1927)</td>
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<td>On the Mountain-Side</td>
<td>Elizabeth Madox Roberts</td>
<td>(The American Mercury Aug 1927)</td>
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<td>The Jew</td>
<td>Edwin Seaver</td>
<td>(The New Republic Jan 25 1928)</td>
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<td>The Romantic Sailor</td>
<td>James Stevens</td>
<td>(The Frontier May 1928)</td>
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<td>Midwestern Primative</td>
<td>Ruth Suckow</td>
<td>(Harper’s Mar 1928)</td>
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<td>So-Long, Oldtimer</td>
<td>Edmund Ware</td>
<td>(Ladies Home Journal Aug 1927)</td>
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