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

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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.