100 Selected StoriesWordsworth Editions, 1995 - 735 páginas With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso's command of language and allusion. This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions. |
Contenido
The Gift of the Magi I 16 | 1 |
The Skylight Room | 15 |
The Cop and the Anthem | 32 |
Mammon and the Archer | 46 |
An Unfinished Story | 60 |
The Furnished Room | 74 |
Telemachus Friend | 96 |
The Trimmed Lamp | 112 |
A Tempered Wind | 226 |
Hostages to Momus | 241 |
Strictly Business | 260 |
The Fifth Wheel | 276 |
The Things the Play | 291 |
A Municipal Report | 307 |
Compliments of the Season | 323 |
Past One at Rooneys | 338 |
The Assessor of Success | |
Brickdust Row | 141 |
The Social Triangle | 158 |
The Guilty Party | 173 |
The Tale of a Tainted Tenner | 189 |
The Exact Science of Matrimony 204 | |
The Third Ingredient | 359 |
Buried Treasure | 380 |
The HeadHunter | 399 |
The Sleuths | 419 |
Ulysses and the Dogman | 437 |