O. Henry : selected stories
O. Henry (Author), Guy Davenport (Editor)
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
Short stories
xx, 521 p. ; 20 cm.
9780140186888, 0140186883
1374141907
The coming out of Maggie
A service of love
Between rounds
An unfinished story
After twenty years
By courier
The pendulum
The buyer from Cactus City
Brickdust Row
The foreign policy of Company 99
The count and the wedding guest
The country of elusion
The ransom of Mack
The higher abdication
A call loan
The princess and the puma
The Indian summer of Dry Valley Johnson
The reformation of calliope. The complete life of John Hopkins
Dougherty's eye opener
While the auto waits
The defeat of the city
The Plutonian fire
Squaring the circle
The fool killer
Transients in Arcadia
Extradited from Bohemia
From each according to his ability
The memento
Jeff Peters as a personal magnet
Modern rural sports
The man higher up
Hostages to Momus
The guardian of the accolade
Phoebe
A double dyed deceiver
A retrieved reformation
Friends in San Rosario
The emancipation of Billy
A departmental case
The renaissance at Charleroi
Two renegades. "The Rose of Dixie"
Schools and schools
Thimble, thimble
The moment of victory
No story
The gold that glittered
The day resurgent
The thing's the play
A municipal report
Proof of the pudding
The venturers
The theory and the hound
The ransom of Red Chief
The whirligig of life
The roads we take
A blackjack bargainer
One dollar's worth
Madame Bo Peep, of the ranches
Witches' loaves
The duplicity of Hargraves
October and June
The church with an overshot wheel
The atavism of John Tom Little Bear
The marquis and Miss Sally
Out of Nazareth
Hearts and hands