The best American short stories, 1940 :  and the yearbook of the American short story / 
edited by Edward J. O'Brien. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  1940. 
 - xvii, 525 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Anschluss / Kay Boyle -- The people vs. Abe Lathan, colored / Erskine Coldwell -- Getting on in the world / Morley Callaghan -- Roof sitter / Frances Eisenberg -- The fall of machine gun McGurk / James T. Farrell -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Design in Plaster / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury / Caroline Gordon -- Under the ridge / Ernest Hemingway -- The honey house / Mary King -- Death of an outcast / Manuel Komroff -- That fine place we had last year / Roderick Lull -- Your general does not sleep / Emilio Lussu -- Something jolly / Dorothy McCleary -- Kullan / Edita Morris -- The beautiful fire / I.V. Morris -- Family history / P.M. Pasinetti -- The way death comes / Prudencio de Pereda -- Herself / James Pooler -- The downward path of wisdom / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Presbyterian choir singers / William Saroyan -- Words without music / Michael Seide -- Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw -- The seven men of Rouen / George Slocombe -- Four worms turning / Morton Stern -- The two deaths of Kaspar Rausch / Hans Otto Storm -- Rich men / Jesse Stuart -- Beautifully and bravely / Harry Sylvester -- Night and the lost armies / Benedict Thielen -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Resurgam / Louis Zara. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS643  / .B47 1940