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Selected Stories
by O. Henry, Victoria Blake

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• Author: O. Henry, Victoria Blake
• Release date: September 1, 2003
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9781593080426 (1593080425)
• Format: paperback, 464 pages
• Publisher: Barnes Noble Classics
• Genres: classics, fiction, literature, american, anthologies, humor, collections

About The Book

O. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In “After Twenty Years,” for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman. Behind the rendezvous lurks a powerful dramatic situation with a fascinating moral dilemma — all in a few brief pages.

This is just one of the many literary gems in Selected Stories of O. Henry, a collection of forty-five of O. Henry’s most renowned and entertaining short stories. Each one offers insights into human nature and the ways it is affected by love, jealousy, poverty, gentility, and the all-pervading reality of people conning people — themes that ran through the author’s own life. Born William Sidney Porter, O. Henry started writing while in prison for embezzlement. Later he moved to New York, and his tales romanticizing the commonplace, particularly the life of ordinary New Yorkers, became highly popular. The most widely read author of his time, O. Henry died penniless but left behind a wealth of short stories that endure as hallmarks of the genre.

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