O. Henry Books In Order

Four Million Books In Order

  1. The Four Million (1906)
  2. The Trimmed Lamp (1907)
  3. The Voice of the City (1908)
  4. Strictly Business (1910)

Novels

  1. The Gift of the Magi (1906)

Collections

  1. Cabbages and Kings (1904)
  2. Heart of the West (1907)
  3. The Gentle Grafter (1908)
  4. Options (1909)
  5. Roads of Destiny (1909)
  6. Let Me Feel Your Pulse (1910)
  7. Whirligigs (1910)
  8. Sixes and Sevens (1911)
  9. The Rolling Stone (1912)
  10. The Complete Writings Of O. Henry (1917)
  11. Waifs and Strays (1917)
  12. Selected Stories (1922)
  13. Postscripts (1923)
  14. The Best Of O Henry (1929)
  15. More O Henry (1933)
  16. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (1945)
  17. Cops and Robbers (1948)
  18. Complete Works Of O. Henry (1953)
  19. Tales of O. Henry (1969)
  20. Stories by O. Henry (1978)
  21. 41 Stories (1984)
  22. The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories (1985)
  23. 100 Selected Stories (1993)
  24. The New York Stories of O. Henry (2019)
  25. The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories (2020)
  26. The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2021)
  27. O. Henry: 101 Stories (2021)
  28. Christmas with O. Henry (2021)

Novellas

  1. The Furnished Room (1906)
  2. The Last Leaf (1907)

Non fiction

  1. Letters To Lithopolis (1922)

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The Four Million

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher. 1919. Excerpt:…
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI O E dollar and eighty seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the rroril reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining, the reunto, was a card bearing the name ‘Mr. James Dillingham Young.’ The ‘Dillingham’ had been fluwg to the breeze during a former period of , rosperity when it possessor was being paid $30 per week. No’ , when the income was shrunk to $20, the letters of ‘Dillingham’ looked biurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called ‘Jim’ and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good. Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard. To morrow would…

The Trimmed Lamp

1923. William Sydney Porter O. Henry was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Another device he used was the surprise ending, usually coming about through coincidence. He was the founder of the humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. He was convicted of embezzling money, although there’s much debate over his actual guilt, and while in prison he started to write short stories. His first work, Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking appeared in McClure’s Magazine. After emerging from prison Porter changed his name to O. Henry. He then moved to New York and wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. His stories deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses and most are set in his contemporary present, the early years of the 20th century. In the title story, The Trimmed Lamp, he offers a sentimental and moralistic portrait of the after hours lives of young New York working women. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Voice of the City

In this book O. Henry is on an assignment to find out The Voice of the City New York City 1907. You see, it’s a special order. Ordinarily a symposium comprising the views of Henry Clews, John L. Sullivan, Edwin Markham, May Irwin and Charles Schwab would be about all. But this is a different matter. He wants a broad, poetic, mystic vocalization of the city’s soul and meaning. O. Henry wrote of real people, with real problems, but he brought such tender understanding to his portraits of life, and such verbal gymnastics to his manner of expression, that any story of his can be read now, a century later, and still summon your innermost tender spot. O. Henry wrote with realistic detail based on his first hand experiences both in Texas and in New York City. Born William Sydney Porter, this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name ‘O. Henry.’ He was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent his childhood. His only formal education was received at the school of his Aunt Lina, where he developed a lifelong love of books. You will laugh. You will cry. You will be glad to have found him.

Strictly Business

O. Henry 1862 1910 was originally born William Sydney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. As a young man, he moved to Austin, Texas where he worked as a bank teller. He moved again to Houston, Texas in 1895 and became a newspaper columnist. In 1896, however, he was called back to Austin, where he was charged with embezzling money from the bank where he had worked. Not wanting to go to prison for his crime, O. Henry fled to Honduras, and stayed there for six months before returning to the United States. Upon his return, the court tried him and put him in an Ohio prison for three years. While in prison, he began writing short stories and it is there that he took the pen name O. Henry for his writings. After his release from prison in 1901, he moved to New York, which is the setting for many of his stories. He is the author of over 250 stories and is most famous for his use of surprise or ‘twist’ endings. Notice the twists and surprises in the endings to ‘The Last Leaf’, ‘The Green Door’, and perhaps his most famous story, ‘The Gift of the Magi’. Honors were now coming to O. Henry from everywhere. The poet laureate of England, John Masefield, visited Will and said that Rudyard Kipling, himself successful with the short story, wanted the poet to say hello for him. Willa Cather, then an editor but already writing novels, admired his work. William James, the famous philosopher at Harvard, was recommending O. Henry’s books to his students. Mabell Wagnalls of the dictionary publishing family became a dear friend and introduced Will to high society. At this time, poor health robbed his stamina. Despite the doctors orders, O. Henry could not stop drinking. He complained of constant fatigue. At night he couldn’t sleep. He lost his appetite. Only malted milks pleased him. But no matter how ill, he made it his business to pass down familiar streets where old friends, depending on his unfailing charity, waited for him. During this time two more books were published. Both were 1910 volumes. Strictly Business, praised by historians for its authentic sociology of derelict life, featured ‘A Municipal Report, ‘ which has appeared in anthologies of short stories more often than any other story written in America. In this tale O. Henry demonstrates perfect management of picturesque dialect and sharp descriptive detail. His figures, Casesar, the black cabby, and Major Caswell, the professional Southern bore, are full of humanity.

The Gift of the Magi

‘Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry, originally published in 1906, has become one of the best known and most beloved of Chistmas tales. An exuberant couple urged on by their love, make great sacrifices in order to purchase the perfect Christmas gift for the other. The husband sells his gold watch in order to buy expensive combs for his wife’s luxurious locks. While the wife sells her hair to the wigmaker in order to buy a chain suitable for her husband’s handsome timepiece. When all is revealed on Christmas Eve, the sweet irony of their dual generosity leaves them, whether they know it or not, as the wisest of gift givers: ‘But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.’ The artist Joel Priddy employs the same twists of reciprocity in his own work and is well suited to adapting and updating this classic for a modern audience.

Cabbages and Kings

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter 1862 1910. Porter’s 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He travelled to Austin in 1884, where he took a number of different jobs over the next several years, first as pharmacist then as a draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began writing as a sideline to employment. Porter’s most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, characterization and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Yet, he went on to gain international recognition and is credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. His works include: Cabbages and Kings 1904, The Four Million 1906, Heart of the West 1907, The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million 1907, The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million 1908, The Gentle Grafter 1908 and Roads of Destiny 1909.

Heart of the West

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301 Heart of the West HEARTS AND CROSSES BALDY WOODS reached for the bottle, and got it. Whenever Baldy went for anything he usually but this is not Baldys story. He poured out a third drink that was larger by a finger than the first and second. Baldy was in consultation and the consultee is worthy of his hire. Id be king if I was you, said Baldy, so posi tively that his holster creaked and his spurs rattled. Webb Yeager pushed back his flat brimmed Stetson, and made further disorder in his straw coloured hair. The tonsorial recourse being without avail, he followed the liquid example of the more resourceful Baldy. If a man marries a queen, it oughtnt to make him a two spot, declared Webb, epitomising his grievances. Sure not, said Baldy, sympathetic, still thirsty, add genuinely solicitous concerning the relative value of the cards. By rights youre a king. If I was you, Id call for a new deal. The cards have been stacked on you Ill tell you what you are, Webb Yeager. What asked Webb, with a hopeful look in his ale blue eyes. 3 4 Heart of the West Youre a prince consort. Go easy, said Webb. I never blackguarded you none. Its a title, explained Baldy, L up among the picture cards but it dont take no tricks. Ill tell you, Webb. Its’s brand the3re got for certain animals in Europe. Say that you or me or one of them Dutch dukes marries in a royal family. Well, by and by our wife gets to be queen. Are we king Not in a million years. At the coronation ceremonies we march between little casino and the Ninth Grand Custodian of the Royal Hall Bedchamber. The only use we are is to appear in photographs, and accept the responsibility for the heir apparent. That aint any square deal. Yes, sir, Webb, youre a prince consort and if I was you, Id start a interregnum or a habeas corpus or somethin and Id be king if I had to turn from the bottom of the deck. Baldy emptied his glass to the ratification of his Warwick pose. Baldy, said Webb, solemnly, me and you punched cows in the same outfit for years. We been runnin on the same range, and ridin the same trails since we was boys. I wouldnt talk about my family affairs to nobody but you. You was line rider on the Nopalito Ranch when I married Santa McAllister. I was foreman then but what am I now I dont amount to a knot in a stake rope. When old McAllister was the cattle king of West Texas, continued Baldy with Satanic sweetness, you Hearts and Crosses 5 was some tallow. You had as much to say on the ranch as he did. I did, admitted Webb, up to the time he found out I was tryin to get my rope over Santas head. Then he kept me oct on the range as far from the ranch house as he could. When the old man died they commenced to call Santa the cattle queen. Im boss of the cattle thats all…

The Gentle Grafter

The Gentle Grafter‘ looks at business from a distinctly shady angle, with its stories about cool headed, sharp dressing trickster Jeff Peters. O. Herny was a supreme story teller, drawing his material from the lives of ordinary people clerks, city dwellers, exiles and drifters. O. Henry was the pseudonym for William Sydney Porter, master of the short story. His empathy ran deep and he wrote in the language of the man in the street. In March of 1898 he was sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary. During his term he began his serious writing. He would use a score of pseudonyms in his career to this point, but his favorite was borrowed from Orrin Henry, a prison guard. O. Henry’s popularity reached its height after his death. His writing was seen as straightforward and simple, written in the plain vernacular of his readers. His stories may rely on a sameness of plot, but the sharp, unexpected twist at the end is still his distinctive trademark today. Critics have singled out O. Henry as one of the greatest American short story writers describing him as a ‘writer’s writer’ who also possesses universal appeal. A critic traveling early in the century fell into a conversation with a Midwest farmer. When asked if he ever read O. Henry, the farmer replied, ‘Professor, that’s literature, that’s real literature.’

Options

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter 1862 1910. Porter’s 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. He travelled to Austin in 1884, where he took a number of different jobs over the next several years, first as pharmacist then as a draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began writing as a sideline to employment. Porter’s most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, characterization and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Yet, he went on to gain international recognition and is credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. His works include: Cabbages and Kings 1904, The Four Million 1906, Heart of the West 1907, The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million 1907, The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million 1908, The Gentle Grafter 1908 and Roads of Destiny 1909.

Roads of Destiny

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE DISCOUNTERS OF MONEY. 1 HE spectacle of the money caliphs of the present day going about Bagdad on the Subway trying to relieve the wants of the people is enough to make the great Al Raschid turn Haroun in his grave. If not so, then the assertion should do so, the real caliph having been a wit and a scholar and therefore a hater of puns. How properly to alleviate the troubles of the poor is one of the greatest troubles of the rich. But one thing agreed upon by all professional philanthropists is that you must never hand over any cash to your subject. The poor are notoriously temperamental; and when they get money they exhibit a strong tendency to spend it for stuffed olives and enlarged crayon portraits instead of giving it to the instalment man. And still, old Haroun had some advantages as an eleemosy narian. He took around with him on his rambles his vizier, Giafar a vizier is a composite of a chauffeur, a secretary of state, and a night and day bank, and old Uncle Mesrour, his executioner, who toted a snickersnee. With this entourage a caliphing tour could hardly fail to be successful. Have you noticed lately any newspaper articles headed, ‘ What Shall We Do With Our Ex Presidents?’ Well, now, suppose that Mr. Carnegie should engage him and Joe Gans to go about assisting in the distribution of free libraries ? Do you suppose any town would have the hardihood to refuse one? That caliphalous combination would cause two libraries to grow where there had been only one set of E. P. Roe’s works before. But, as I said, the money caliphs are handicapped. They have the idea that earth has no sorrow that dough cannot heal; and they rely upon it solely. Al Raschid administered justice, rewarded the deserving, and punished whomsoever he disliked on the spot. He wa…

Let Me Feel Your Pulse

1910. Previously published in Cosmopolitan under the title, Adventures in Neurasthenia. William Sydney Porter O. Henry was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Another device he used was the surprise ending, usually coming about through coincidence. He was the founder of the humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. He was convicted of embezzling money, although there’s much debate over his actual guilt, and while in prison he started to write short stories. His first work, Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking appeared in McClure’s Magazine. After emerging from prison Porter changed his name to O. Henry. He then moved to New York and wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Whirligigs

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in THE HYPOTHESES OF FAILURE L/AWYER Gooch bestowed his undivided attention upon the engrossing arts of his profession. But one flight of fancy did he allow his mind to entertain. He was fond of likening his suite of office rooms to the bottom of a ship. The rooms were three in number, with a door opening from one to another. These doors could also be closed. ‘Ships,’ Lawyer Gooch would say, ‘are constructed for safety, with separate, water tight compartments in their bottoms. If one compartment springs a leak it fills with water; but the good ship goes on unhurt. Were it not for the separating bulkheads one leak would sink the vessel. Now it often happens that while I am occupied with clients, other clients with conflicting interests call. With the assistance of Archibald an office boy with a future I cause the dangerous influx to be diverted into separate compartments, while I sound with my legal plummet the depth of each. If necessary, they may be baled into the hallway and permitted to escape by way of the stairs, which we may term the lee scuppers. Thus the good ship of business is kept afloat; whereas if the element that supports her were allowedto mingle freely in her hold we might be swamped ha, ha, ha!’ The law is dry. Good jokes are few. Surely it might be permitted Lawyer Gooch to mitigate the bore of briefs, the tedium of torts and the prosiness of processes with even so light a levy upon the good property of humour. Lawyer Gooch’s practice leaned largely to the settlement of marital infelicities. Did matrimony languish through complications, he mediated, soothed and arbitrated. Did it suffer from implications, he readjusted, defended and championed. Did it arrive at the extremity of duplications, he always got light sentences for his clients…
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Sixes and Sevens

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII THE CHAMPION OF THE WEATHER IF YOU should speak of the Kiowa Reservation to the average New Yorker he probably wouldn’t know whether you were referring to a new political dodge at Albany or a leitmotif from ‘Parsifal.’ But out in the Kiowa Reservation advices have been received concerning the existence of New York.. A party of us were on a hunting trip in the Reservation. Bud Kingsbury, our guide, philosopher, and friend, was broiling. antelope steaks in camp one night. One of the partyja pinkish haired young man in a correct hunting costumK sauntered over to the fire to light a cigarette, andfremarked carelessly to Bud: ‘Nice night!’ ‘Why, yes,’ said Bud, ‘as nice as any night could be that ain’t received the Broadway stamp of approval.’ Now, the young man was from New York, but the rest of us wondered how Bud guessed it. So, when the steaks were done, we besought him to lay bare his system of ratiocination. Q And as Bud was something of a Territorial talking machine he made oration a follows: ‘How did I know he was from New York ? Well, I figured it out as soon as he sprung them two words on me. I was in New York myself a couple of years ago, and I noticed some of the earmarks and hoof tracks of the Rancho Manhattan.’ ‘Found New York rather different from the Panhandle, didn’t you, Bud?’ asked one of the hunters. ‘Can’t say that I did,’ answered Bud; ‘anyways, not more than some. The main trail in that town which they call Broadway is plenty travelled, but they’re about the same brand of bigeds that tramp around in Cheyenne and Amarillo/ At first I was sort of rattled by the crowds, but I soon says to myself, ‘Here, now, Bud; they’re just plain folks like you and Geronimo and Grover Cleveland and the Watson boys, so don’t get all flustered up w…

The Rolling Stone

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HELPING THE OTHER FELLOW Originally published in Munsey’t Magazine, December, 1908. ‘But can thim that helps others help thimselves 1’ Mulvaney. 1HIS is the story that William Trotter told me on the beach at Aguas Frescas while I waited for the gig of the captain of the fruit steamer Andador which was to take me abroad. Reluctantly I was leaving the Land of Always Afternoon. William was remaining, and he favored me with a condensed oral autobiography as we sat on the sands in the shade cast by the Bodega Nacional. As usual, I became aware that the Man from Bombay had already written the story ; but as he had compressed it to an eight word sentence, I have become an expansionist, and have quoted his phrase above, with apologies to him and best regards to Terence. ‘Don’t you ever have a desire to go back to the land of derby hats and starched collars ?’ I asked him. ‘You seem to be a handy man and a man of action,’ I continued, ‘and I am sure I could find you a comfortable job somewhere in the States.’ Ragged, shiftless, barefooted, a confirmed eater of thelotos, William Trotter had pleased me much, and I hated to see him gobbled up by the tropics. ‘I’ve no doubt you could,’ he said, idly splitting the bark from a section of sugar cane. ‘I’ve no doubt you could do much for me. If every man could do as much for himself as he can for others, every country in the world would be holding millenniums instead of centennials.’ There seemed to be pabulum in W. T.’s words. And then another idea came to me. I had a brother in Chicopee Falls who owned manufactories cotton, or sugar, or A. A. sheetings, or something in the commercial line. He was vulgarly rich, and therefore reverenced art. The artistic temperament of the family was monopolized at my birth…
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Waifs and Strays

1919. Together with a representative selection of critical and biographical comment. William Sydney Porter O. Henry was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Another device he used was the surprise ending, usually coming about through coincidence. Contents: Part One, Twelve Stories: The Red Roses of Tonia; Round the Circle; The Rubber Plant’s Story; Out of Nazareth; Confessions of a Humorist; The Sparrows in Madison Square; Hearts and Hands; The Cactus; The Detective Detector; The Dog and the Playlet; A Little Talk about Mobs; and The Snow Man. Part Two, Critical and Biographical Comment includes writings about O. Henry by Arthur W. Page, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Leacock, A. St. John Adcock, George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Arthur B. Maurice, Caroline Francis Richardson, and Henry James Forman. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Selected Stories

Eighty stories that display O. Henry’s comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life’s realities. These stories about con men and tricksters and ‘innocent’ deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry’s mastery of speech and place, and highlight his appreciation of life’s quirks.

Postscripts

1923. William Sydney Porter O. Henry was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Another device he used was the surprise ending, usually coming about through coincidence. He was the founder of the humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. He was convicted of embezzling money, although there’s much debate over his actual guilt, and while in prison he started to write short stories. His first work, Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking appeared in McClure’s Magazine. After emerging from prison Porter changed his name to O. Henry. He then moved to New York and wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. Postscripts is a collection of collections of his early work on the Houston Post. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Best Of O Henry

Part of the ‘Everyman’ series which has been re set with wide margins for notes and easy to read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life and times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

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.

Cops and Robbers

Irony, tragedy, humor all in swift, surprising strokes those are the characteristics of O. Henry’s classic short stories. In this collection is revealed the master’s tremendous versatility sixteen stories of crime and no two of them with the same approach or point of view. Here are five completely different brands of sleuths, and nine separate and distinct types of criminals. And, because murder is the ultimate crime, there are two extra murderers included. A collection you can’t afford to miss! And in nearly all the stories you will find O. Henry’s literary trademark the ‘snapper,’ the surprise ending. William Sydney Porter 1862 1910, was an American writer of short stories. In 1909, O. Henry, the most popular writer of American fiction was a well dressed inebriate New York man about town. The name ‘O. Henry’ had first seen print only a decade before, protecting the identity of a convicted embezzler in the Ohio Federal Penitentiary. As O. Henry, Will Porter wrote short stories of immense appeal, full of the humor of words and the funnier jokes that life plays on those who strive, contrive, or love. Before his death at the age of 47, Porter had published 381 short stories stories which virtually defined that form for many years to come and which are still read in American schools and in translation throughout the world.

Complete Works Of O. Henry

O. Henry’s short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Collected in this collection is a giant anthology of his work. Works include:Heart of the WestCabbages and KingsThe Four MillionThe Gentle GrafterThe Gift of the MagiOptionsRoads of DestinyRolling StonesStrictly Business More Stories of the Four MillionSixes and SevensThe Trimmed Lamp & Other StoriesThe Voice of the CityWaifs and StraysWhirligigsThe Boy Scouts Book of Stories

Stories by O. Henry

Tor Classics are affordably priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate ‘reader friendly’ type sizes have been chosen for each title offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

Tales of laughter and tears, love and loss…

Tales of old and young, rich and poor, the best and the worst…

Tales of lies and truth, selfishness and sacrifice, loyalty and betrayal…

O’Henry’s stories are set in mansions and slums, teeming cities and desolate frontiers. Stories of grand adventure, thrilling romance, gripping suspense, hilarious comedy. Stories about turns of fate, twists of destiny, accidents of chance…
and always. always, endless surprises!

The tales of O’Henry stories as surprising.. as life itself.

41 Stories

One of the most famous pseudonym’s in history, the name O. Henry evokes wordplay that is dazzling, inventive, wry, and humorous. This anthology includes forty one stories that continue to captivate generation after generation of readers, including ‘The Gift of the Magi,’ ‘The Furnished Room,’ and those which demonstrate the technical genius and wide range of O. Henry’s world.

The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories

Sixteen captivating stories by one of America’s most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as ‘The Gift of the Magi,’ ‘The Last Leaf,’ ‘The Ransom of Red Chief,’ ‘The Voice of the City,’ and ‘The Cop and the Anthem.’ Publisher’s Note.

100 Selected Stories

This collection of 100 of O Henry’s finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America’s best and best loved short story writers The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of ‘the four million’ ordinary citizens who inhabited turn of the century New York. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humour that have made O Henry’s stories popular for the last century.

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