The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (editor)

Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College and Harvard University. He was noted for compiling and editing an annual collection of The Best Short Stories by American authors at the beginning of the twentieth-century, and also a series of The Best Short Stories by British authors. They proved to be highly influential and popular. He was also a noted author, his works including White Fountains (1917) and The Forgotten Threshold (1918).

Genres: Short Stories

604 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2011

About the author

Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College and Harvard University. He was noted for compiling and editing an annual collection of The Best Short Stories by American authors at the beginning of the twentieth-century, and also a series of The Best Short Stories by British authors. They proved to be highly influential and popular. He was also a noted author, his works including White Fountains (1917) and The Forgotten Threshold (1918).

Reviews

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some were brilliant, others seemed awful to me. Interestingly most seem pretty negative in their outlook - only a couple have positive endings. A lot of the people and situations portrayed are fairly unrelievedly depressed and depressing.