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The Best Short Stories of 1917
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I deny that the American short story is at a low ebb, and I offer the present volume as a revelation of the best that is now being done in this field. I agree with Mrs. Colum that the best stories are only to be found after a laborious dusty search, but this is the proof rather than the refutation of my position.[excerpt from Introduction] - Summary by Edward J. O'Brien, Editor
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- The Best Short Stories of 1917
Tales of Chekhov, Vol. 13, Love and Other Stories-Anton Chekhov
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December Tales-William Harrison Ainsworth
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Homage to John Dryden Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century-T. S. Eliot
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Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 005-Various
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Rover Vol. 01 No. 14-Lawrence Labree, Seba Smith
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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 31, June 1, 1880-Various
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Romantic-May Sinclair
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One-Act Play Collection 012-Various
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Sentimental Song Book-Julia A. Moore
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Psychology the Cognitive Powers-James McCosh
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Brittain's Ida
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Deep Water Voyage-Paul Eve Stevenson
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Beckside Lights-John Ackworth
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New Poems-D. H. Lawrence
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Poems by Charles Harpur-Charles Harpur
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Our Journey to Sinai-Agnes von Blomberg Bensly
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Anarchism and Other Essays-Emma Goldman
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Bacteria in Daily Life-Grace Coleridge Frankland
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Child of the Dawn-Arthur Christopher Benson
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Rover Vol. 01 No. 01-Lawrence Labree, Seba Smith
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Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits-William Hazlitt
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Moment of Time-Richard Hughes
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On Everything-Hilaire Belloc
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Dubliners (Version 2)-James Joyce
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Prejudices, First Series-H. L. Mencken
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Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children-Mabel Powers
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Early explorations in New South Wales A collection-Richard Hind Cambage, John Price
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Antigone (Plumptre Translation)-Sophocles
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Journey of Coronado-Pedro de Castañeda
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Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543-John Leland
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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)-Songling Pu
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Two Sides of a Question-May Sinclair
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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 33, June 15, 1880-Various
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These Little Ones-E. Nesbit
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Rover Vol. 01 No. 03-Lawrence Labree, Seba Smith
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Georgics A Poem of the Land-Virgil
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Selected Poems-Siegfried Sassoon
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Castles in the Air-Baroness Emma Orczy
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Sadhana, The Realisation of Life (Version 3)-Rabindranath Tagore
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Sonnets of John Keats-John Keats
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Rover Vol. 01 No. 12-Lawrence Labree, Seba Smith
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Yellowstone National Park Six Early Pieces-Various
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Monday or Tuesday-Virginia Woolf
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Short Description of Torre Abbey-Hugh Robert Watkin
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Our Village, Volume 1-Mary Russell Mitford
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Book of American Explorers-Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Mugby Junction-Charles Dickens, Various
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Mortal Coils-Aldous Huxley
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Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Errors of the Modernists)-Pope St Pius X
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Is Shakespeare Dead-Mark Twain
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