The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

O Henry

ISBN 10: 0679601228 / ISBN 13: 9780679601227

Published by Random House USA Inc, 1994

About this Item

O. Henry, the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), is best known for writing stories full of wit, wordplay, and warm characterizations, and particularly for their clever twist endings. This volume contains twenty of O. Henry's best and best-loved stories. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humor that have made O. Henry's stories popular for the last century. The stories contained in this unique collection are Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking, The Gift of the Magi, The Cop and the Anthem, One Dollar's Worth, A Retrieved Reformation, The Last of the Troubadours, The Caballero's Way, Last Leaf, The Furnished Room, Cupid's Exile Number Two, The Lotus and the Bottle, The Trimmed Lamp, Springtime a la Carte, The Sleuths, Out of Nazareth, Memoirs of a Yellow Dog, The Making of a New Yorker, Law and Order, Hearts and Hands, and The Ransom of Red Chief.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679601228
• ISBN 13: 9780679601227
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.  The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller.  They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.  They give the full range and flavor of the man born William Sydney Porter but known throughout the world as O. Henry, one of the great masters of the short story.

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