Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995. — 752 p. — ISBN: 1-85326-241-2. The stories of O Henry are in the great tradition of American short story writing that stretches from Irving and Roe through to Damon Runyon and even P J O'Rourke. In all, Henry wrote two hundred and seventy stories, and they consist of a rich mixture of semi-realism, sentiment and surprise endings. Though he is...
Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995. — 752 p. — ISBN: 1-85326-241-2. The stories of O Henry are in the great tradition of American short story writing that stretches from Irving and Roe through to Damon Runyon and even P J O'Rourke. In all, Henry wrote two hundred and seventy stories, and they consist of a rich mixture of semi-realism, sentiment and surprise endings. Though he is...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well-known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well-known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. "Baldy Woods reached for the bottle, and got it. Whenever Baldy went for anything he usually – but this is not Baldy's story. He poured out a third drink that...
Storybook. English language. - Hearts and Crosses - The Ransom of Mack - Telemachus, Friend - The Handbook of Hymen - The Pimienta Pancakes - Seats of the Haughty - Hygeia at the Solito - An Afternoon Miracle - The Higher Abdication - Cupid a la Carte - The Caballero's Way - The Sphinx Apple - The Missing Chord - A Call Loan - The Princess and the Puma - The Indian Summer of...
Options collection of short stories and stories from the first part of Waifs and Strays. Waifs and Strays. Part 1 - 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 - The...
Storybook. English language. - Roads of Destiny - The Guardian of the Accolade - The Discounters of Money - The Enchanted Profile - "Next to Reading Matter" - Art and the Bronco - Phœbe - A Double-dyed Deceiver - The Passing of Black Eagle - A Retrieved Reformation - Cherchez la Femme - Friends in San Rosario - The Fourth in Salvador - The Emancipation of Billy - The Enchanted...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well-known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. "The song was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the countryside. The company about the inn table applauded heartily, for the young poet paid for...
Author of "The Four Million, " "The Voice of the City, " "The Trimmed Lamp, " "Strictly Business, " "Sixes and Sevens, " etc. THE ROLLING STONE is a weekly paper published in Austin, Texas every Saturday and will endeavor to fill a long-felt want that does not appear, by the way, to be all together in satiable at present.
Stories, poems, drawings, letters of O. Henry, and photographs of him in childhood, in his youth, the last photograph, and photographs of the newspapers, the editors of which he headed. - Introduction - The Dream - A Ruler of Men - The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear - Helping the Other Fellow - The Marionettes - The Marquis and Miss Sally - A Fog in Santone - The Friendly Call...
Storybook. English language. The Last of the Troubadours; The Sleuths; Witches' Loaves; The Pride of the Cities; Holding Up a Train; Ulysses and the Dogman; The Champion of the Weather; Makes the Whole World Kin; At Arms with Morpheus; A Ghost of a Chance; Jimmy Hayes and Muriel; The Door of Unrest; The Duplicity of Hargraves; Let Me Feel Your Pulse; October and June; The...
Storybook. English language. Strictly Business: New York Stories. More Stories of the Four Million. - Strictly Business - The Gold that Glittered - Babes in the Jungle (reminiscent of the English folk tale Babes in the Wood) - The Day Resurgent - The Fifth Wheel - The Poet and the Peasant - The Robe of Peace - The Girl and the Graft - The Call of the Tame - The Unknown Quantity...
The Furnished Room. The Last Leaf. The Gift of the Magi. The Cop and the Anthem. The Green Door. After Twenty Years. A Retrieved Reformation. The Third Ingredient. The Princess and the Puma. Buried Treasure. An Unfinished Story. Babes in the Jungle. The Call of the Tame.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1903. 1728 p. O. Henry was a penname of William Sydney Porter who was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11, 1862. He was an American writer whose short stories are known and loved by people of different ages throughout the world. After Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain, O. Henry is the most read author in the world and bears the title...
O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Collected in this book (Golgotha Press, 2010) is a giant anthology of his work, including the stories, some early verses and a few letters.
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862–1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Tobin's Palm The Gift of the Magi A Cosmopolite in a Café Between Rounds The Skylight Room A Service of Love The Coming-Out of Maggie Man about Town The Cop and the Anthem An...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862–1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. - Tobin's Palm - The Gift of the Magi - A Cosmopolite in a Café - Between Rounds - The Skylight Room - A Service of Love - The Coming-Out of Maggie - Man about Town - The Cop and the...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862–1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. - Tobin's Palm - The Gift of the Magi - A Cosmopolite in a Café - Between Rounds - The Skylight Room - A Service of Love - The Coming-Out of Maggie - Man about Town - The Cop and the...
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. The Four Million was published in 1906. It takes inspiration from the then population of New York, and serves up slices of the Big Apple, frequently humorous. The promise of a new century energizes everyone from Eastside...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well-known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. "A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters. "That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a policeman?'". "It is...
Storybook. English language. With numerous illustrations. - The Octopus Marooned - Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet - Modern Rural Sports - The Chair of Philanthromathematics - The Hand That Riles the World - The Exact Science of Matrimony - A Midsummer Masquerade - Shearing the Wolf - Innocents of Broadway - Conscience in Art - The Man Higher Up - A Tempered Wind - Hostages to...
The Octopus Marooned. Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet. Modern Rural Sports. The Chair of Philanthromathematics. The Hand That Riles the World. The Exact Science of Matrimony. A Midsummer Masquerade. Shearing the Wolf. nnocents of Broadway. Conscience in Art. The Man Higher Up. A Tempered Wind. Hostages to Momus. The Ethics of Pig.
(illustrated) "The Gentle Grafter" by O. Henry, Author of "The Four Million," "The Voice of the City," "The Trimmed Lamp," "Strictly Business," "Whirligigs," Etc.
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. "One 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...
The Trimmed Lamp - A Madison Square Arabian Night - The Rabiyat of a Scotch Highball - The Pendilum - Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen - The Assessor of Success - The Buyer from Cactus City - The Badge of Policeman O'Roon - Brickdust Row - The Making of a New Yorker - Vanity and Some Sables - The Social Triangle - The Purple Dress - The Foreign Policy of Company 99 - The Lost...
Other Stories of the Four Million: A Madison Square Arabian Night; The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball; The Pendulum; Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen; The Assessor of Success; The Buyer from Cactus City; The Badge of Policeman O'Roon; Brickdust Row; The Making of a New Yorker; Vanity and Some Sables; The Social Triangle; The Purple Dress; The Foreign Policy of Company 99; The Lost...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. "Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an...
Storybook. English language. Further Stories of the Four Million: The Voice of the City - The Complete Life of John Hopkins - A Lickpenny Lover - Dougherty's Eye-Opener - "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit" - The Harbinger - While the Auto Waits - A Comedy in Rubber - One Thousand Dollars - The Defeat of the City - The Shocks of Doom - The Plutonian Fire - Nemesis and the Candy...
Storybook. English language. - The World and the Door - The Theory and the Hound - The Hypotheses of Failure - Calloway's Code - A Matter of Mean Elevation - "Girl" - Sociology in Serge and Straw - The Ransom of Red Chief - The Marry Month of May - A Technical Error - Suite Homes and Their Romance - The Whirligig of Life - A Sacrifice Hit - The Roads We Take - A Blackjag...
O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. " A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger than Fiction. I do not know if the...
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