Best College Short Stories 1917 18 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Best College Short Stories, 1917-18 In my annual yearbook of the American short story it has been my custom to indicate the distinc tive stories in American periodicals by prefixing to the titles one, two or three asterisks, to indicate an ascending series of literary values. I have found it interesting to apply these tests to the stories in the present collection, and when the fact is taken into consideration that no professional writers are in cluded in the volume, I feel that the results are an interesting proof of the imaginative awakening among our American college undergraduates. I should list each of the three stories I have already mentioned with three asterisks, five other stories with two aster isks, and four others with one asterisk. In other words, of the twenty-two stories in this volume, selected by Mr. Schnittkind as a fair cross section of undergraduate writing, I should have regarded twelve as worthy of distinctive mention judged by the standards applicable to the best professional work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.