title: The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012: Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
author: Laura Furman
description: Laura Furman, series editor of <i>The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories</i> since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of seven books, includingher recent story collection <i>The Mother Who Stayed</i>, she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas.
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  # O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Various
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  ENGLAND TO AMERICA
  
  
  “FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO”
  
  
  THEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL
  
  
  ON STRIKE
  
  
  THE ELEPHANT REMEMBERS
  
  
  TURKEY RED
  
  
  FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD
  
  
  THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON
  
  
  “HUMORESQUE”
  
  
  THE LUBBENY KISS
  
  
  THE TRIAL IN TOM BELCHER'S STORE
  
  
  PORCELAIN CUPS
  
  
  THE HIGH COST OF CONSCIENCE
  
  
  THE KITCHEN GODS
  
  
  APRIL 25TH, AS USUAL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD
  
  
  PRIZE STORIES
  
  
  of 1919
  
  
  
  
  
  CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
  
  
  
  
  
  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
  
  
  BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS
  
  
  1924
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  ENGLAND TO AMERICA. By Margaret Prescott Montague
  
  
  “FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.” By Wilbur Daniel Steele
  
  
  THEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL. By Ben Ames Will