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Edward J. O'Brien Archives
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Edward J. O'Brien •ï¿½63 Items / 48 Books, 6 Articles, 2 Reviews, 7 Poems
The Best Short Stories of 1924 (1925)
by Edward J. O'Brien
And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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  1. [+]
    A Shelf of Recent Books (4 Reviews)
    Gerald Hewes Carson
    Good---Better---Best Short Stories
    1. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    2. Prize Stories of 1924 by Blanche Colton Williams
    3. The Best French Stories of 1923-1924 by Richard Eaton
    4. The Best Continental Stories of 1923-1924 by Richard Eaton
    The Bookman, May 1925, pp. 348-350
  2. [+]
    The New Books (5 Reviews)
    Fiction
    1. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    2. The Red Mass by Valentine Williams
    3. The Ninth of November by Bernhard Kellermann
    4. The Trail of the Conestoga by Mabel Dunham
    5. Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
    The Outlook, February 11, 1925, p. 228
  3. [+]
    Anthologies (6 Reviews)
    Dale Warren
    The Best Short Stories of 1924, by Edward J. O'Brien
    1. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    2. The Best British Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos
    3. The Best French Stories of 1923-1924 by Richard Eaton
    4. The Best Continental Stories of 1923-1924 by Richard Eaton
    5. The Best Poems of 1924 by L.A.G. Strong
    6. The Best Plays of 1923-24 by Burns Mantle
    The Forum, March 1925, pp. 447-452
  4. [+]
    The New Books (7 Reviews)
    Fiction
    1. The Best French Stories of 1923-1924 by Richard Eaton
    2. The Keys of the City by Elmer H. Davis
    3. Red Coat and Minute Man by Bernard Marshall
    4. The Bronze Collar by John Frederick
    5. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    6. Challenged by Helen R. Martin
    7. Princess Amelia by Carola Oman
    The Saturday Review, March 21, 1925, pp. 618-619
  5. [+]
    Short Stories the World Over (10 Reviews)
    Johan J. Smertenko
    Prize Stories of 1924, by Blanche Colton Williams
    1. Prize Stories of 1924 by Blanche Colton Williams
    2. Prize Stories of 1923
    3. Centerville, U.S.A. by Charles Merz
    4. Flying Osip by L. Seifullina and Ivan Kasatkin
    5. Subsoil by George F. Hummel
    6. Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
    7. Five Tales by Emile Verhaeren
    8. Stories from the Dial
    9. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    10. Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors
    The Nation, April 22, 1925, pp. 469-470
  6. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (59 Reviews)
    Five in Family, by E.H. Anstruther
    1. Five in Family by E.H. Anstruther
    2. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
    3. Peacock Feathers by Temple Bailey
    4. The Divine Lady by E. Barrington
    5. Alias Ben Alibi by Irvin S. Cobb
    6. If Dreams Come True by Alice Ross Colver
    7. A Gentleman of Courage by James Oliver Curwood
    8. The Unknown Quantity by Ethel M. Dell
    9. This Mad Ideal by Floyd Dell
    10. The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
    11. Nina by Susan Ertz
    12. So Big by Edna Ferber
    13. Reamer Lou by Louis Forgione
    14. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
    15. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy
    16. Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    17. The Thundering Herd by Zane Grey
    18. Blind Man's Buff by Louis Hemon
    19. Balisand by Joseph Hergesheimer
    20. The Slave Ship by Mary Johnston
    21. Miracle by Clarence Budington Kelland
    22. The Ninth of November by Bernhard Kellermann
    23. The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
    24. Mrs. William Horton Speaking by Fannie Kilbourne
    25. The Enchanted Hill by Peter B. Kyne
    26. With This Ring by Fanny Heaslip Lea
    27. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
    28. Rugged Water by Joseph C. Lincoln
    29. The Prince of Washington Square by Harry F. Liscomb
    30. Shaken Down by Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry
    31. Challenged by Helen R. Martin
    32. Sard Harker by John Masefield
    33. This Sorry Scheme by Bruce Marshall
    34. East of the Setting Sun by George Barr McCutcheon
    35. Short Stories Written in Shanghai by Members of the Short Story Club
    36. God's Stepchildren by Sarah Gertrude Millin
    37. In a Shantung Garden by Louise Jordan Miln
    38. Val Sinestra by Martha Morton
    39. Jonah by Robert Nathan
    40. Rose of the World by Kathleen Norris
    41. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    42. The Inevitable Millionaires by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    43. The Virgin Flame by Ernest Pascal
    44. Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak
    45. The Clock by Aleksei Remizov
    46. The Peasants by Ladislas Stanisaw Reymont
    47. Red of the Redfields by Grace S. Richmond
    48. Annette and Sylvie by Romain Rolland
    49. Lucky in Love by Berta Ruck
    50. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
    51. Young Mischief and the Perfect Pair by Hugh de Selincourt
    52. Triple Fugue by Osbert Sitwell
    53. The Gates of Morning by H. De Vere Stacpoole
    54. Nora Pays by Lucille Van Slyke
    55. Najib by Albert Payson Terhune
    56. Deep in the Hearts of Men by Mary E. Waller
    57. The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole
    58. Professor! How Could You? by Harry Leon Wilson
    59. Bill the Conqueror by P.G. Wodehouse
    The Bookman, April 1925, pp. 216-218
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    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (66 Reviews)
    The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen
    1. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
    2. These Charming People by Michael Arlen
    3. Peacock Feathers by Temple Bailey
    4. To Babylon by Larry Barretto
    5. The Chaste Diana by E. Barrington
    6. The Divine Lady by E. Barrington
    7. The Seven Sleepers by Francis Beeding
    8. Stacey by Alexander Black
    9. Tongues of Fire, and Other Sketches by Algernon Blackwood
    10. Points of Honor by Thomas Boyd
    11. The Specimen Case by Ernest Bramah
    12. O'Malley of Shanganagh by Donn Byrne
    13. Thomas the Imposter by Jean Cocteau
    14. '49: A Novel of Gold by George W. Cronyn
    15. The Riddle of Three-Way Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
    16. A Gentleman of Courage by James Oliver Curwood
    17. The Keys of the City by Elmer H. Davis
    18. The Grand Inquisitor by Donald Douglas
    19. Backfurrow by G.D. Eaton
    20. The Loring Mystery by Jeffery Farnol
    21. So Big by Edna Ferber
    22. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
    23. The Bronze Collar by John Frederick
    24. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy
    25. Gold by Gold by Herbert S. Gorman
    26. The Thundering Herd by Zane Grey
    27. Segelfoss Town by Knut Hamsun
    28. The Early Adventures of Peacham Grew by Roy A. Helton
    29. Trimblerigg by Laurence Housman
    30. Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen
    31. The Shadow Captain by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe
    32. The Enchanted Hill by Peter B. Kyne
    33. He Was a Man by Rose Wilder Lane
    34. Wild Marriage by B.H. Lehman
    35. Rugged Water by Joseph C. Lincoln
    36. Orphan Island by Rose Macaulay
    37. Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
    38. The Black Cargo by John P. Marquand
    39. Challenged by Helen R. Martin
    40. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
    41. The Mirror and the Lamp by William Babington Maxwell
    42. The Moment of Beauty by Samuel Merwin
    43. Mockbeggar by Laurence W. Meynell
    44. In a Shantung Garden by Louise Jordan Miln
    45. Prisoners by Ferenc Molnar
    46. My Name Is Legion by Charles Langbridge Morgan
    47. Cottonwood Gulch by Clarence E. Mulford
    48. Rose of the World by Kathleen Norris
    49. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    50. The Inevitable Millionaires by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    51. Running Special by Frank L. Packard
    52. Drag by William Dudley Pelley
    53. The Peasants by Ladislas Stanisaw Reymont
    54. Red of the Redfields by Grace S. Richmond
    55. Annette and Sylvie by Romain Rolland
    56. Lucienne by Jules Romains
    57. The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini
    58. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
    59. The Rector of Wyck by May Sinclair
    60. The Unholy Experiment by Constance Smedley
    61. The Little Karoo by Pauline Smith
    62. The Matriarch by G.B. Stern
    63. God of Might by Elias Tobenkin
    64. Deep in the Hearts of Men by Mary E. Waller
    65. The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole
    66. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    The Bookman, May 1925, pp. 340-342
  8. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (92 Reviews)
    The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen
    1. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
    2. Father Abraham by Irving Bacheller
    3. A Triangle by Maurice Baring
    4. The Divine Lady by E. Barrington
    5. Alan by E.F. Benson
    6. The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
    7. The Clutch of the Corsican by Alfred Hoyt Bill
    8. Old Wine by Phyllis Bottome
    9. Drums by James Boyd
    10. The Mysteries of Ann by Alice Brown
    11. Wild Berry Wine by Joanna Cannan
    12. Variety by Richard Edward Connell
    13. The Western Shore by Clarkson Crane
    14. Mrs. Harter by E.M. Delafield
    15. Harvest in Poland by Geoffrey Dennis
    16. Love by Elizabeth Von Arnim
    17. The Loring Mystery by Jeffery Farnol
    18. So Big by Edna Ferber
    19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    20. The Mill of Many Windows by J.S. Fletcher
    21. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
    22. Pattern by Rose L. Franken
    23. The Mystery of Angelina Frood by R. Austin Freeman
    24. Mountains of Mystery by Arthur O. Friel
    25. The Long Green Gaze by Vincent Fuller
    26. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy
    27. High Noon by Crosbie Garstin
    28. Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    29. The Reckless Lady by Philip Gibbs
    30. The Thundering Herd by Zane Grey
    31. Queen of the Dawn by H. Rider Haggard
    32. Lifting Mist by Austin Harrison
    33. Mr. Collin Is Ruined by Frank Heller
    34. The Ship of Souls by Emerson Hough
    35. Myrtle by Stephen Hudson
    36. Professor by Stanley Johnson
    37. Before the Dawn by Toyohiko Kagawa
    38. Numerous Treasure by Robert Keable
    39. The Mansion House by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
    40. The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
    41. The Enchanted Hill by Peter B. Kyne
    42. The Treasure by Selma Lagerlof
    43. Snuffs and Butters, and Other Stories by Ellen N. La Motte
    44. Memoirs of Arsene Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc
    45. Dead Right by Jennette Lee
    46. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
    47. Rugged Water by Joseph C. Lincoln
    48. Orphan Island by Rose Macaulay
    49. Perissa by S.P.B. Mais
    50. Martha by Percy Marks
    51. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    52. The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges by Edison Marshall
    53. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
    54. Young Mrs. Cruse by Viola Meynell
    55. The Monarch by Pierre Mille
    56. God's Stepchildren by Sarah Gertrude Millin
    57. The Counterplot by Hope Mirrlees
    58. The Best Short Stories of 1924 by Edward J. O'Brien
    59. His Wife-in-Law by Marie Conway Oemler
    60. The Black Soul by Liam O'Flaherty
    61. The Inevitable Millionaires by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    62. Sandalwood by Fulton Oursler
    63. Invisible Wounds by Frederick Palmer
    64. The Chase by Mollie Panter-Downes
    65. The Treasures of Typhon by Eden Phillpotts
    66. A Voice from the Dark by Eden Phillpotts
    67. Mr. Tasker's Gods by Theodore F. Powys
    68. Dominion by John Presland
    69. Old Brig's Cargo by Henry A. Pulsford
    70. The Peasants by Ladislas Stanisaw Reymont
    71. The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini
    72. Obedience by Michael Sadleir
    73. The Skyrocket by Adela Rogers St. Johns
    74. The Turn of a Day by C.A. Dawson Scott
    75. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
    76. Schooling by Paul Selver
    77. Initiation by George Shively
    78. The Rector of Wyck by May Sinclair
    79. The Scarlet Cockerel by C.M. Sublette
    80. Bobbed Hair by Twenty Famous Authors
    81. Watling's by Horace Annesley Vachell
    82. Tristan by Armando Palacio Valdes
    83. The Road to En-Dor by Louis Joseph Vance
    84. Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
    85. The Tree of the Folkungs by Verner von Heidenstam
    86. Julia by Betsey R. von Hutten
    87. Carnival Colors by Maude Radford Warren
    88. The Prince and the Princess by Claude C. Washburn
    89. The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
    90. Mystery in Red by Sidney Williams
    91. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    92. Passion and Pain by Stefan Zweig
    The Bookman, June 1925, pp. 465-468