Prize Stories from Collier's

The short stories in these volumes represent a period that was the high-water mark of the development of this form of literature. At the time of original publication, the short story had become the common form of entertainment and instruction, displacing the longer book on the newsstands.It is natural that the short stories in these five volumes should constitute a picture of American life during the period covered. The principal prize-winning story, "Fagan," by Rowland Thomas, is a picture of the strange juxtaposition brought about by that anomalous American excursion into the East -- an American negro serving as a trooper in the fantastic background of the Philippines. Another of the prize winners, "The Trawler," by James B. Connolly, is a picture of the daily life of the Gloucester fisherman, a picture crystallized and written down by Mr. Connolly just at a time when that phase of American life was more or less passing out of existence, when the dory driven by the arm of the oarsman was being supplanted by the motor-driven boat.The winning stories were selected by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter H. Page, William Allen White, Ida M. Tarbell, and Mark Sullivan.Lodge, Henry Cabot is the author of 'Prize Stories from Collier's' with ISBN 9781589634961 and ISBN 1589634969.