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Best Short Stories of O.Henry Free FREE BEST SHORT STORIES OF O.HENRY PDF O. Henry | 368 pages | 31 May 1997 | Random House USA Inc | 9780679601227 | English | New York, United States Best O Henry Stories | List of Stories Written By O Henry The more than stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. 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. His talent for vivid caricature, local tone, narrative agility, and compassion… More about O. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. The Biggest Books of the Month. Read An Excerpt. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry By O. Cartmell By O. Cartmell Best Seller. Mar 22, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Jul 28, ISBN Best Short Stories of O.Henry from:. Hardcover —. Henry The more than stories written by O. Also by O. About O. Henry O. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Raymond Carver. Two Trains Running. August Wilson. The O. Henry Prize Stories Love Letters and Two Other Plays. Gurney Jr. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Scott Fitzgerald. Louisa May Alcott. To a God Unknown. John Steinbeck. Robert Schnakenberg. Henry Green. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Michael Ondaatje. Christmas at Thompson Hall. Anthony Trollope. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson. A Passage to India. David Rakoff. New American Stories. Thus Were Their Faces. Silvina Ocampo. Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview. Ernest Hemingway. The Metamorphosis. A Parisian Affair and Other Stories. Guy de Maupassant. Big Sur. Jack Kerouac. Best Short Stories of O.Henry Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Let Me Tell You. Shirley Jackson. Collected Stories Stegner, Wallace. Wallace Stegner. Wobegon Boy. Garrison Keillor. My Mortal Enemy. 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The titles are listed based on the number of votes cast for each story, and your votes can affect the order as well! Included among O. Henry stories below and see where he ranks among the best short story writers of all time. The Gift of the Magi The last leaf After Twenty Years The Ransom of Red Chief The Cop and the Anthem A Retrieved Reformation Roads of destiny Calloway's Code The Skylight Room Cabbages and kings Furnished Room The Princess Best Short Stories of O.Henry the Puma The Harbinger Best Short Stories of O.Henry Cosmopolite in a Cafe Blind Man's Holiday Conscience in Art Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen The Gentle Grafter Heart of the West Man About Town The Third Ingredient While the Auto Waits Rolling stones Hikayeler Innocents of Broadway The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry Henry is known for entertaining and clever short stories. Here is a sampling of some of his stories with a short summary for each. This page contains some of O. A link is provided where possible for easy online reading. This volume is huge. A policeman makes his rounds, checking that the shop doors are secured for the night, when he sees a man waiting in an entrance way. The man explains that he and a friend made arrangements twenty years ago to meet there that night. Blinker is a wealthy landowner and landlord. He decides to go to Coney Island. On the ferry ride, he meets Florence, a young working-class woman. A ranger, Lieutenant Sandridge, searches for the Cisco Kid, a murderer with a quick temper and quick draw. A man returns home after attending the wedding of his ex. He thinks about their courtship, and how much she adored him; he wonders why things went wrong. Calloway is on assignment as a war correspondent for the New York Enterprise. He manages to inform his paper of the details of the decisive battle on the day it occurs, even though outgoing communication is censored. The paper received a cablegram of perplexing nonsense from Calloway. His coworkers searched without success for some meaning, until it was shown to Vesey, a young reporter. Soapy, a vagrant, is in the park. Winter is in the air. To meet his needs, he wants to be sent to jail for about three months. He decides on a few petty crimes that will result in the desired Best Short Stories of O.Henry. Rushmore Coglan talks about his travels and his familiarity with the globe. He proclaims his impartiality and decries any attachment to a particular place. Robert Walmsley, a former country boy, is a successful Manhattan lawyer and respected city gentleman. He married a high-status, inaccessible woman, Alicia Van Best Short Stories of O.Henry Pool. Murray is in a cell on death row. The time for his execution is almost here. He talks to his friend Bonifacio in a nearby Best Short Stories of O.Henry. He is also visited by a reverend. This is O. An editor fills in some information at the end. When someone goes to live in New York, whether rich or poor and for whatever reason, they have to fight. The battle is between Best Short Stories of O.Henry a New Yorker and friend of the city, or remaining an outsider and enemy. William, a business man, and Jack, an artist arrive in New York at the same time. Four years later they meet for lunch. Major Pendleton Talbot and Best Short Stories of O.Henry daughter, Miss Lydia, move Best Short Stories of O.Henry a boarding house. The Major is finishing up his memoirs. Another boarder, Hargraves, is a comedian at a vaudeville theater. He takes a liking to the Major and listens to his stories. Vuyning is bored with the company at his club—the members always say the same things. He is also preoccupied with Miss Allison, who has refused his proposals five times. While out walking, he meets Schrumm, a con-man and thief. Vuyning is pleased that something is changing his usual routine. A young man searches boarding houses looking for the woman he loves, a small-town girl trying to break in to show business. Miss Merriam is a cashier at a downtown restaurant. She sits at a desk behind woven wire fencing. On top of her official duties, she has to fend off the invitations, offers and advances of the male patrons. Read here. Best Short Stories of O.Henry with a strong spirit Best Short Stories of O.Henry adventure, he locates the door and knocks. A marshal boards a train handcuffed to a prisoner. They sit opposite a beautiful woman who recognizes the marshal. A traveler is hired to herd sheep on a ranch. Jack is in love with Mildred, a woman above him socially and financially. He explains his situation to a vagrant. Jeff Peters relates a scheme he Best Short Stories of O.Henry involved in while posing as a medicine man. After being shut down Best Short Stories of O.Henry the constable, he meets Andy, a man with a similar trade. They want to go in on something together. Jeff gets an emergency summons from the mayor; he is sick and the local doctor is out of town. One of the tenants gets pneumonia, and she can see a vine from her deathbed window. A tall man and a New Yorker talk about mob action in New York. Chandler, a man of modest means, saves his money for an occasional night out. On one such excursion, he helps a young woman who has fallen, and asks her to dine with him. To ensure his planned elopement goes smoothly, a man goes to a druggist for a love potion. The son of a millionaire is distressed because the young woman he loves is leaving the country in two days. His father disagrees. Tired of the men she has to deal with as a vaudeville performer, Rosalie Ray retires to a small town. A dog gives a brief account of his life, which has been lived mostly in New York. He was sold as a pup to a doting fat lady. The narrator goes to Tennessee for a meeting with Azalea Adair. During his stay he meets Major Caswell, a widely disliked man considered a nuisance and Best Short Stories of O.Henry. Josepha, princess of a large ranch, and Ripley, a ranch foreman, have an encounter with a Mexican lion. The narrator and Bill have a scheme that requires a little more capital. They decide on a kidnapping, choosing the son of Ebenezer Dorset as their target.
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