단편 인생 최단 이야기,경연대회 81개 수상작.The Book of Short stories from Life, by Thomas L. Masson

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단편 인생 최단 이야기,경연대회 81개 수상작.The Book of Short stories from Life, by Thomas L. Masson
Short stories from Life, The 81 prize stories in Life's Shortest Story Contest.단편으로 인생 최단 이야기를 모은,경연대회 81개 수상작을 목차처럼 정리한책.
Title: Short stories from Life
The 81 prize stories in Life's Shortest Story Contest
Editor: Thomas L. Masson

Short Stories From Life
The 81 Prize Stories in “Life’s”
Shortest Story Contest
With an Introduction by
Thomas L. Masson
Managing Editor of “Life”
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1916
Copyright, 1916, by
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY

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단편 인생 최단 이야기,경연대회 81개 수상작.The Book of Short stories from Life, by Thomas L. Masson
CONTENTS

Introduction
By Thomas L. Masson
Thicker Than Water (First Prize)
By Ralph Henry Barbour and George Randolph Osborne
The Answer (Second Prize)
By Harry Stillwell Edwards
Her Memory (Third Prize Divided)
By Dwight M. Wiley
Business and Ethics (Third Prize Divided)
By Redfield Ingalls
N. B.
By Joseph Hall
The Clearest Call
By Brevard Mays Connor
Greater Love Hath No Man
By Selwyn Grattan
The Gretchen Plan
By William Johnston
The Glory of War
By M. B. Levick
The Aviator
By Hornell Hart
Loyalty
By Clarence Herbert New
Moses Comes to Burning Bush
By W. T. Larned
North of Fifty-three
By Mary Woodbury Caswell
The Old Things
By Jessie Anderson Chase
The Forced March
By Hornell Hart
Approximating the Ultimate with Aunt Sarah
By Charles Earl Gaymon
The Horse Heaver
By Lyman Bryson
The Ego of the Metropolis
By Thomas T. Hoyne
The Gay Deceiver
By Howard P. Stephenson
In Cold Blood
By Joseph Hall
Housework―and the Man
By Freeman Tilden
His Journey’s End
By Ruth Sterry
Food for Thought
By Harriet Lummis Smith
Hope
By Edward Thomas Noonan
Collusion
By Lincoln Steffens
Faithful to the End
By Clair W. Perry
Arletta
By Margaret Ade
Which?
By Joseph Hall
What the Vandals Leave
By Herbert Riley Howe
Ben. T. Allen, Atty., vs. Himself
By William H. Hamby
The Joke on Preston
By Lewis Allen
The Idyl
By Joseph F. Whelan
Withheld
By Ella B. Argo
Up and Down
By Bertha Lowry Gwynne
Patches
By Francis E. Norris
The Arm at Gravelotte
By William Almon Wolff
The Bad Man
By Harry C. Goodwin
Nemesis
By Mary Clark
The Black Door
By Gordon Seagrove
The Man Who Told
By John Cutler
The Unanswered Call
By Thomas T. Hayne
The Women in the Case
By Mary Sams Cooke
The Cat That Came Back
By Virginia West
“Solitaire” Bill
By Arthur Felix McEachern
Just a Pal
By Elsie D. Knisely
When “Kultur” Was Beaten
By Lieutenant X
Presumption of Innocence
By Lyman Bryson
A Mexican Vivandi？re
By H. C. Washburn
Mother’s Birthday Pre

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단편 인생 최단 이야기,경연대회 81개 수상작.The Book of Short stories from Life, by Thomas L. Masson
INTRODUCTION
By Thomas L. Masson
Managing Editor of Life
It was at a luncheon party that the idea of Life’s Short Story Contest was first suggested by Mr. Lincoln Steffens. He propounded this interesting query:
“How short can a short story be and still be a short story?”
It was thereupon determined to discover, if possible, a practical answer to this interesting question. The columns of Life were thrown open to contributors for many months, prizes aggregating $1,750 were offered and eighty-one short stories were published. This book contains these stories, including the four prize winners.
The contest cost in round numbers a little less than $12,000. Over thirty thousand manuscripts were received. They came from all over the world―from sufferers on hospital cots, from literary toilers in the Philippines, from Europe, Asia, and Africa, and from every State in the Union. One manuscript was sent from a trench at the French battle front, where the story had been written between hand grenades. Every kind of story was represented, the war story and the love story being the leaders. Every kind of writing was represented, from the short compound of trite banalities to the terse, dramatic, carefully wrought out climax. Back of many of these efforts the spectral forms of Guy de Maupassant and O. Henry hovered in sardonic triumph. Tragedy predominated. The light touch was few and far between. But it was still there, as the stories published show.
Here let me pay a just tribute to the readers who, with almost superhuman courage, struggled through these thirty thousand manuscripts. In the beginning they were a noble band of highly intelligent and cultivated men and women, with strong constitutions, ready and willing to face literature in any form. I understand that many of them survived the contest. This speaks well for the virility of our American stock. Theirs was a noble and enduring toil, and

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Thomas L. Masson 단편 인생 최단 이야기,경연대회 81개 수상작.The Book of Short stories from Life, by Thomas L. Masson영미 저술가.Title: Short stories from LifeThe 81 prize stories in Life's Shortest Story ContestEditor: Thomas L. MassonShort Stories From LifeThe 81 Prize Stories in “Life’s”Shortest Story ContestWith an Introduction byThomas L. MassonManaging Editor of “Life”Garden City New YorkDoubleday, Page & Company1916Copyright, 1916, byDOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANYAll rights reserved, including that oftranslation into foreign languages,including the ScandinavianCOPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY