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Various. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
Table of Contents
FOUNDER OF THE O. HENRY MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
INTRODUCTION
THE HEART OF LITTLE SHIKARA
I
II
III
IV
V
THE MAN WHO CURSED THE LILIES
THE URGE
MUMMERY
THE VICTIM OF HIS VISION
I
II
III
IV
V
MARTIN GARRITY GETS EVEN
OZARK CENTRAL ALL TRAINS ON TIME
LEMUEL C. BARSTOW
STRANGER THINGS
FIFTY-TWO WEEKS FOR FLORETTE
WILD EARTH
THE TRIBUTE
THE GETAWAY
"AURORE"
MR. DOWNEY SITS DOWN
I
II
III
MOREL PRINSAPLES. BY WILLIE DOWNEY. AGE 12
IV
DEAR SIR:
ANGELINA LANCE
V
VI
VII
VIII
THE MARRIAGE IN KAIRWAN
GRIT
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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These three first choice stories, then, are strong in Oriental flavour, characters, and setting.
Again, democracy (in the etymological sense of the word, always, rather than the political) is exemplified in the fiction of 1921, in that the humblest life as well as the highest offers matter for romance. More than in former years, writers seek out the romance that lies in the lives of the average man or woman. Having learned that the Russian story of realism, with emphasis too frequently placed upon the naturalistic and the sordid, is not a vehicle easily adapted to conveying the American product, the American author of sincerity and belief in the possibility of realistic material has begun to treat it in romantic fashion, always the approved fashion of the short story in this country. So Harry Anable Kniffin's "The Tribute" weaves in 1,700 words a legend about the Unknown Soldier and makes emotionally vivid the burial of Tommy Atkins. Commonplace types regarded in the past as insufficiently drab, on the one hand, and insufficiently picturesque on the other are reflected in this new romantic treatment. Sarah Addington's "Another Cactus Blooms" prophesies colour in that hard and prickly plant the provincial teacher at Columbia for a term of graduate work. Humorously and sardonically the college professor is served up in "The Better Recipe," by George Boas (Atlantic Monthly, March); the doctorate degree method is satirized so bitterly, by Sinclair Lewis, in "The Post Mortem Murder" (Century, May), as to challenge wonder, though so subtly as to escape all save the initiated.
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