Best of
Short-Stories

1938

Uncle Tom's Children


Richard Wright - 1938
    Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories


Delmore Schwartz - 1938
    Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930's and 1940's, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.

House of Fear


Leonora Carrington - 1938
    Leonora Carrington, an artist of the Surrealist Movement, here joins fiction with autobiography in a collection of work including accounts of her life before and after she met Max Ernst as well as short stories, a novella and original artwork.

Pigeons from Hell


Robert E. Howard - 1938
    Howard, written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.

The First Forty-Nine Stories


Ernest Hemingway - 1938
    I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.'A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'Fifty Grand', and 'The Light of the World', and the Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing' and Men Without Women collections.

The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories


Leonora Carrington - 1938
    

Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer


Stephen Vincent Benét - 1938
    

The Long Valley


John Steinbeck - 1938
    Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themeselves in the world, these stories reflect many of the concerns key to Steinbeck as a writer; the tensions between town and city, labourers and owners, past and present. Included here are the celebrated tales, THE MURDERER and THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction


VariousDorothy L. Sayers - 1938
    Fifty detective stories from famous authors and/or famous fictional detectives.

To You Mr. Chips: More Stories of Mr. Chips and the True Story Behind the World's Most Beloved Schoolmaster


James Hilton - 1938
    Short stories mainly about Mr Chips, plus an essay on education.

Seeds of the Dusk


Raymond Z. Gallun - 1938
    Gallun invites us into the world of biological warfare.