The Best Short Stories of 1917

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 Excursion</td>
<td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td>
<td>(Pictorial Review Oct 1917)</td>
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<td>Onnie</td>
<td>Thomas Beer</td>
<td>(The Century Magazine May 1917)</td>
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<td>A Cup of Tea</td>
<td>Maxwell Struthers Burt</td>
<td>(Scribner’s Jul 1917)</td>
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<td>Lonely Places</td>
<td>Francis Buzzell</td>
<td>(Pictorial Review Dec 1917)</td>
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<td>Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest “Old Judge Priest”]</td>
<td>Irvin S. Cobb</td>
<td>(The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 1917)</td>
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<td>Laughter</td>
<td>Charles Caldwell Dobie</td>
<td>(Harper’s Apr 1917)</td>
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<td>The Emperor of Elam</td>
<td>H. G. Dwight</td>
<td>(The Century Magazine Jul 1917)</td>
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<td>The Gay Old Dog</td>
<td>Edna Ferber</td>
<td>(Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1917)</td>
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<td>The Knight’s Move</td>
<td>Katharine Fullerton Gerould</td>
<td>(Atlantic Monthly Feb 1917)</td>
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<td>A Jury of Her Peers</td>
<td>Susan Glaspell</td>
<td>(Every Week Mar 5 1917)</td>
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<td>The Bunker Mouse</td>
<td>Frederick Stuart Greene</td>
<td>(The Century Magazine Mar 1917)</td>
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<td>Rainbow Pete</td>
<td>Richard Matthews Hallet</td>
<td>(Pictorial Review Oct 1917)</td>
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<td>Get Ready the Wreaths</td>
<td>Fannie Hurst</td>
<td>(Cosmopolitan Sep 1917)</td>
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<td>The Strange-Looking Man</td>
<td>Fanny Kemble Johnson</td>
<td>(The Pagan Dec 1917)</td>
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<td>The Caller in the Night</td>
<td>Burton Kline</td>
<td>(Stratford Journal Dec 1917)</td>
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<td>The Interval</td>
<td>Vincent O’Sullivan</td>
<td>(Boston Evening Transcript Sep 8 1917)</td>
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<td>“A Certain Rich Man—”</td>
<td>Lawrence Perry</td>
<td>(Scribner’s Nov 1917)</td>
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<td>The Path of Glory</td>
<td>Mary Brecht Pulver</td>
<td>(The Saturday Evening Post Mar 10 1917)</td>
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<td>Ching, Ching, Chinaman</td>
<td>Wilbur Daniel Steele</td>
<td>(Pictorial Review Jun 1917)</td>
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<td>None So Blind</td>
<td>Mary Synon</td>
<td>(Harper’s Oct 1917)</td>
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