O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1924

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1924 (1925)
edited by Blanche Colton Williams
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O. HENRY MEMORIAL
AWARD

PRIZE STORIES
of 1924

O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD
PRIZE STORIES

of 1924

CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES

with an introduction by
BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS

Author of “A Handbook on Story Writing,”
“Our Short Story Writers,” Etc.

Associate Professor of English, Hunter College
of the City of New York

Instructor in Story Writing, Columbia
University (Extension Teaching and
Summer Session)

GARDEN CITYNEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1925

COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Copyright, 1924, by The McCall Company, The Century Co., The American Mercury, Inc., Consolidated Magazines Corporation, P. F. Collier & Son Company, Harper & Brothers, The Atlantic Monthly Company, The Forum Publishing Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The Frank A. Munsey Company, The Pictorial Review Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, and Charles Scribner’s Sons.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

First Edition

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