O. Henry
Bio: William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910, American short-story writer, b. Greensboro, N.C. He went to Texas in 1882 and worked at various jobs--as teller in an Austin bank (1891-94) and as a newspaperman for the Houston Post. In 1898 an unexplained shortage in the Austin bank was charged to him. Although many people believed him innocent, he fled to Honduras, but returned to be with his fatally ill wife. He eventually served three years in prison, where he first started writing short stories. Upon his release he changed his name to O. Henry and settled in New York City, becoming a highly successful and prolific contributor to various magazines. His short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. O. Henry caught the color and movement of the city and evidenced a genuine sympathy for ordinary people. His approximately 300 stories are collected in Cabbages and Kings (1904), The Four Million (1906), The Voice of the City (1908), Options (1909), and others.
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41 Stories [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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 The Master of Irony. Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century. Widely known as a master of irony, O. Henry also displays here dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor.
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Cabbages and Kings [MultiFormat]
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 O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Proem; "Fox-in-the-Morning"; The Lotus and the Bottle; Smith; Caught; Cupid's Exile Number Two; The Phonograph and the Graft; Money Maze; The Admiral; The Flag Paramount; The Shamrock and the Palm; The Remnants of the Code; Shoes; Ships; Masters of Arts; Dicky; Rouge et Noir; Two Recalls; The Vitagraphoscope. (Published: 1904)
Words: 62984 - Reading Time: 179-251 min.
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Confessions of a Humorist [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Red Roses of Tonia; Round the Circle; The Rubber Plant's Story; Out of Nazareth; Confessions of a Humorist; The Sparrows in Madison Square; Hearts and Hands; The Cactus; The Detective Detector; The Dog and the Playlet; A Little Talk About Mobs; The Snow Man. (Published: 1908)
Words: 28993 - Reading Time: 82-115 min.
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Heart of the West [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Hearts and Crosses, The Ransom of Mack, Telemachus, Friend; The Handbook of Hymen, The Pimienta Pancakes, Seats of the Haughty, Hygeia at the Solito, An Afternoon Miracle, The Higher Abdication, Cupid a la Carte, The Caballero's Way, The Sphinx Apple, The Missing Chord, A Call Loan, The Princess and the Puma, The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson, Christmas by Injunction,... more info>> (Published: 1907)
Words: 77742 - Reading Time: 222-310 min.
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Options [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Rose of Dixie", The Third Ingredient, The Hiding of Black Bill, Schools and Schools, Thimble, Thimble, Supply and Demand, Buried Treasure, To Him Who Waits, He Also Serves, The Moment of Victory, The Head-Hunter, No Story, The Higher Pragmatism, Best-Seller, Rus in Urbe, A Poor Rule. (Published: 1909)
Words: 63777 - Reading Time: 182-255 min.
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Roads of Destiny [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Roads of Destiny, The Guardian of the Accolade, The Discounters of Money, The Enchanted Profile, "Next to Reading Matter", Art and the Bronco, Phoebe, A Double-dyed Deceiver, The Passing of Black Eagle, A Retrieved Reformation, Cherchez la Femme, Friends in San Rosario, The Fourth in Salvador, The Emancipation of Billy, The Enchanted Kiss, A Departmental Case, The Renaissan... more info>> (Published: 1909)
Words: 96806 - Reading Time: 276-387 min.
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Rolling Stones [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Dream; Ruler of Men; The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear; Helping the Other Fellow; The Marionettes; The Marquis and Miss Sally; A Fog In Santone; The Friendly Call; A Dinner At--*; Sound and Fury; Tictocq; Tracked to Doom; A Snapshot At the President; An Unfinished Christmas Story; The Unprofitable Servant; Aristocracy Versus Hash; The Prisoner of Zembla; A Strange Sto... more info>> (Published: 1912)
Words: 71143 - Reading Time: 203-284 min.
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Sixes and Sevens [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Last of the Troubadours; The Sleuths; Witches' Loaves; The Pride of the Cities; Holding Up a Train; Ulysses and the Dogman; The Champion of the Weather; Makes the Whole World Kin; At Arms With Morpheus; The Ghost of a Chance; Jimmie Payes And Muriel; The Door of Unrest; The Duplicity of Hargraves; Let Me Feel Your Pulse; October and June; The Church with an Overshoot Wh... more info>> (Published: 1911)
Words: 63222 - Reading Time: 180-252 min.
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Strictly Business [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Strictly Business, The Gold that Glittered, Babes in the Jungle, The Day Resurgent, The Fifth Wheel, The Poet and the Peasant, The Robe of Peace, The Girl and the Graft, The Call of the Tame, The Unknown Quantity, The Thing's the Play, A Ramble in Aphasia, A Municipal Report, Psyche and the Pskyscraper, A Bird of Bagdad, Compliments of the Season, A Night in New Arabia, The... more info>> (Published: 1910)
Words: 71309 - Reading Time: 203-285 min.
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The Four Million [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Gift of the Magi, Tobin's Palm, A Cosmopolite in a Cafe, Between Rounds, The Skylight Room, A Service of Love, The Coming-Out of Maggie, Man About Town, The Cop and the Anthem, An Adjustment of Nature, Memoirs of a Yellow Dog, The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein, Mammon and the Archer, Springtime a La Carte, The Green Door, From the Cabby's Seat, An Unfinished Story, T... more info>> (Published: 1906)
Words: 52355 - Reading Time: 149-209 min.
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The Gentle Grafter [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Octopus Marooned; Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet; Modern Rural Sports; The Chair of Philanthromathematics; The Hand That Riles the World; The Exact Science of Matrimony; A Midsummer Masquerade; Shearing the Wolf; Innocents of Broadway; Conscience in Art; The Man Higher Up; A Tempered Wind; Hostages to Momus; The Ethics of Pig. (Published: 1908)
Words: 43654 - Reading Time: 124-174 min.
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The Ransom of Red Chief [MP3 Audio]
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"It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, during a moment of temporary mental apparition; but we didn't find that out till later." The classic humorous tale about a kidnapping gone awry by the beloved O Henry. Read by Alex Wilson. (Published: 1907)
Length: 0 hours, 22 minutes, 2 secs
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The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Trimmed Lamp; A Madison Square Arabian Night; The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball; The Pendulum; Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen; The Assessor of Success; The Buyer from Cactus City; The Badge of Policeman O'roon; Brickdust Row; The Making of a New Yorker; Vanity and Some Sables; The Social Triangle; The Purple Dress; The Foreign Policy of Company 99; The Lost Blend; A Har... more info>> (Published: 1907)
Words: 56732 - Reading Time: 162-226 min.
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The Voice of the City [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Voice of The City, The Complete Life of John Hopkins, A Lickpenny Lover, Dougherty's Eye Opener, Little Speck In Garnered Fruit, The Harbinger, While the Auto Waits, A Comedy in Rubber, One Thousand Dollars, The Defeat of the City, The Shocks of Doom, The Plutonian Fire, Nemesis and the Candy Man, Squaring the Circle, Roses, Ruses, and Romance, The Four Roses, The City of D... more info>> (Published: 1908)
Words: 53092 - Reading Time: 151-212 min.
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Whirligigs [MultiFormat]
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O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; "Girl"; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and their Romance; The Whirligig of Life; A Sacrifice Hit; The Roads We Take; A Blackjack Bargainer; The Song and the Sergeant; One Doll... more info>> (Published: 1910)
Words: 75002 - Reading Time: 214-300 min.
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The Gift of the Magi [Secure Mobipocket]
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A classic story of love and dedication. An excellent gift for your special Valentine.
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Waifs and Strays [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" from The Essential Bordertown and "There's No Such Thing," which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, "Sisters," tells of precocious 16-year-old Appoline, a vampire ("Yeah, I drink blood. But it's not as gross as it sounds. And it's not as mess... more info>>
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