THE BEST BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES OF 1920: A CRITICAL SUMMARY
Reading edition
The Ten Best American Books
1. Brown. Homespun and Gold. Macmillan. 2. Cather. Youth and the Bright Medusa. Knopf. 3. Dwight. The Emperor of Elam. Doubleday, Page. 4. Howells, Editor. Great Modern American Stories. Boni & Liveright. 5. Johnson. Under the Rose. Harper. 6. Sedgwick. Christmas Roses. Houghton Mifflin. 7. Smith. Pagan. Scribner. 8. Society of Arts and Sciences.O. Henry Prize Stories, 1919. Doubleday, Page. 9. Spofford. The Elder's People. Houghton Mifflin. 10. Yezierska. Hungry Hearts. Houghton Mifflin.
The Ten Best English Books
1. Beerbohm. Seven Men. Knopf. 2. Cannan. Windmills. Huebsch. 3. Dunsany. Tales of Three Hemispheres. Luce. 4. Easton. Golden Bird. Knopf. 5. Evans. My Neighbours. Harcourt, Brace, and Howe. 6. Galsworthy. Tatterdemalion. Scribner. 7. Huxley. Limbo. Doran. 8. O'Kelly. The Golden Barque, and the Weaver's Grave. Putnam. 9. Trevena. By Violence. Four Seas. 10. Wylie. Holy Fire. Lane.
The Ten Best Translations
1. Aleichem. Jewish Children. Knopf. 2. Andreiev. When the King Loses His Head. International Bk. Pub. 3. Annunzio. Tales of My Native Town. Doubleday, Page. 4. Brown and Phoutrides, Editors. Modern Greek Stories. Duffield. 5. Chekhov. The Chorus Girl. Macmillan. 6. Dostoevsky. The Honest Thief. Macmillan. 7. Hrbkova, Editor. Czecho-Slovak Stories. Duffield. 8. Level. Tales of Mystery and Horror. McBride. 9. McMichael, Editor. Short Stories from the Spanish. Boni & Liveright. 10. Mayran. Story of Gotton Connixloo. Dutton.
The Best New English Publications
1. Gibbon, Perceval. Those Who Smiled. Cassell. 2. Mayne, Ethel Colburn. Blindman. Chapman and Hall. 3. Mordaunt, Elinor. Old Wine in New Bottles. Hutchinson. 4. O'Kelly, Seumas. The Leprechaun of Killmeen. Martin Lester. 5. Robinson, Lennox. Eight Short Stories. Talbot Press. 6. Shorter, Dora Sigerson. A Dull Day in London. Nash. 7. Lemaître, Jules. Serenus. Selwyn and Blount.