The best short stories of O. Henry

Author

O Henry

Call Number

• FICTION HENR (CEN)

Edition

Modern Library ed.

Publication Information

New York : Modern Library, 1994.

Physical Description

xii, 340 pages ; 20 cm.

Summary

Contains thirty-eight stories from the author's mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.

Contents

• The gift of the Magi
• A cosmopolite in a café
• Man about town
• The cop and the anthem
• The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
• Mammon and the archer
• Springtime à la carte
• From the cabby's seat
• An unfinished story
• The romance of a busy broker
• The furnished room
• Roads of destiny
• The enchanted profile
• The passing of Black Eagle
• A retrieved reformation
• The renaissance at Charleroi
• Shoes
• Ships
• The hiding of Black Bill
• The duplicity of Hargraves
• The ransom of Red Chief
• The merry month of May
• The whirligig of life
• A blackjack bargainer
• A lickpenny lover
• The defeat of the city
• Squaring the circle
• Transients in Arcadia
• The trimmed lamp
• The pendulum
• Two Thanksgiving Day gentlemen
• The making of a New Yorker
• The lost blend
• A Harlem tragedy
• A midsummer knight's dream
• The last leaf
• The count and the wedding guest
• A municipal report.