The Best American Short Stories and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

This is an anthology of short stories selected by Edward J. O'Brien and Martha Foley, two influential American literary critics and editors of the mid-20th century. The collection includes works by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Katherine Anne Porter, and provides a snapshot of the state of American fiction in the years preceding and following World War II.

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