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Short Stories Collection: 100+ Stories
This collection includes more than 100 short stories by one of the best American writers O. THE GIFT OF THE MAGIHEARTS AND CROSSESTHE RANSOM OF MACKTELEMACHUS, FRIENDTHE HANDBOOK OF HYMENTHE PIMIENTA PANCAKESSEATS OF THE HAUGHTYHYGEIA AT THE SOLITOAN AFTERNOON MIRACLETHE HIGHER ABDICATIONCUPID A LA CARTETHE CABALLERO'S WAYTHE SPHINX APPLETHE MISSING CHORDA CALL LOANTHE PRINCESS AND THE PUMATHE INDIAN SUMMER OF DRY VALLEY JOHNSONCHRISTMAS BY INJUNCTIONA CHAPARRAL PRINCETHE REFORMATION OF CALLIOPEROADS OF DESTINYTHE GUARDIAN OF THE ACCOLADETHE DISCOUNTERS OF MONEYTHE ENCHANTED PROFILE"NEXT TO READING MATTER"ART AND THE BRONCOPHŒBEA DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVERTHE PASSING OF BLACK EAGLEA RETRIEVED REFORMATIONCHERCHEZ LA FEMMEFRIENDS IN SAN ROSARIOTHE FOURTH IN SALVADORTHE EMANCIPATION OF BILLYTHE ENCHANTED KISSA DEPARTMENTAL CASETHE RENAISSANCE AT CHARLEROION BEHALF OF THE MANAGEMENTWHISTLING DICK'S CHRISTMAS STOCKINGTHE HALBERDIER OF THE LITTLE RHEINSCHLOSSTWO RENEGADES THE LONESOME ROADTHE DREAMA RULER OF MEN THE ATAVISM OF JOHN TOM LITTLE BEARHELPING THE OTHER FELLOWTHE MARIONETTESTHE MARQUIS AND MISS SALLYA FOG IN SANTONETHE FRIENDLY CALLA DINNER AT ––––*SOUND AND FURYTICTOCQTRACKED TO DOOMA SNAPSHOT AT THE PRESIDENTAN UNFINISHED CHRISTMAS STORYTHE UNPROFITABLE SERVANTARISTOCRACY VERSUS HASHTHE PRISONER OF ZEMBLAA STRANGE STORYFICKLE FORTUNE, OR HOW GLADYS HUSTLEDAN APOLOGYLORD OAKHURST'S CURSEBEXAR SCRIP NO. 2692 QUERIES AND ANSWERS THE BY THE CARPENTER"FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLESMITHCAUGHTCUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWOTHE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFTMONEY MAZETHE ADMIRALTHE FLAG PARAMOUNTTHE SHAMROCK AND THE PALMTHE REMNANTS OF THE CODESHOESSHIPSMASTERS OF ARTSDICKYROUGE ET NOIR TWO RECALLSTHE VITAGRAPHOSCOPETOBIN'S PALMA COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFÉBETWEEN ROUNDSTHE SKYLIGHT ROOMA SERVICE OF LOVETHE COMING-OUT OF MAGGIEMAN ABOUT TOWNTHE COP AND THE ANTHEMAN ADJUSTMENT OF NATUREMEMOIRS OF A YELLOW DOGTHE LOVE-PHILTRE OF IKEY SCHOENSTEINMAMMON AND THE ARCHERSPRINGTIME À LA CARTETHE GREEN DOORFROM THE CABBY'S SEATAN UNFINISHED STORYTHE CALIPH, CUPID AND THE CLOCKSISTERS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLETHE ROMANCE OF A BUSY BROKERAFTER TWENTY YEARSLOST ON DRESS PARADEBY COURIERTHE FURNISHED ROOMTHE BRIEF DÉBUT OF TILDY
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Published November 27, 2015
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O. Henry
2,911 books1,860 followersSuch volumes as
Cabbages and Kings
(1904) and
The Four Million
(1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. Henry.
His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language.
Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch.
In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him.
He failed to establish a small humorous weekly and afterward worked in poorly-run bank. When its accounts balanced not, people blamed and fired him.
In Houston, he worked for a few years until, ordered to stand trial for embezzlement, he fled to New Orleans and thence Honduras.
Two years later, he returned on account of illness of his wife. Apprehended, Porter served a few months more than three years in a penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. During his incarceration, he composed ten short stories, including A Blackjack Bargainer , The Enchanted Kiss , and The Duplicity of Hargraves .
In 1899, McClure's published Whistling Dick's Christmas Story and Georgia's Ruling .
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he sent manuscripts to New York editors. In the spring of 1902, Ainslee's Magazine offered him a regular income if he moved to New York.
In less than eight years, he became a bestselling author of collections of short stories. Cabbages and Kings came first in 1904 The Four Million, and The Trimmed Lamp and Heart of the West followed in 1907, and The Voice of the City in 1908, Roads of Destiny and Options in 1909, Strictly Business and Whirligigs in 1910 followed.
Posthumously published collections include The Gentle Grafter about the swindler, Jeff Peters; Rolling Stones , Waifs and Strays , and in 1936, unsigned stories, followed.
People rewarded other persons financially more. A Retrieved Reformation about the safe-cracker Jimmy Valentine got $250; six years later, $500 for dramatic rights, which gave over $100,000 royalties for playwright Paul Armstrong. Many stories have been made into films.
His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language.
Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch.
In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him.
He failed to establish a small humorous weekly and afterward worked in poorly-run bank. When its accounts balanced not, people blamed and fired him.
In Houston, he worked for a few years until, ordered to stand trial for embezzlement, he fled to New Orleans and thence Honduras.
Two years later, he returned on account of illness of his wife. Apprehended, Porter served a few months more than three years in a penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. During his incarceration, he composed ten short stories, including A Blackjack Bargainer , The Enchanted Kiss , and The Duplicity of Hargraves .
In 1899, McClure's published Whistling Dick's Christmas Story and Georgia's Ruling .
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he sent manuscripts to New York editors. In the spring of 1902, Ainslee's Magazine offered him a regular income if he moved to New York.
In less than eight years, he became a bestselling author of collections of short stories. Cabbages and Kings came first in 1904 The Four Million, and The Trimmed Lamp and Heart of the West followed in 1907, and The Voice of the City in 1908, Roads of Destiny and Options in 1909, Strictly Business and Whirligigs in 1910 followed.
Posthumously published collections include The Gentle Grafter about the swindler, Jeff Peters; Rolling Stones , Waifs and Strays , and in 1936, unsigned stories, followed.
People rewarded other persons financially more. A Retrieved Reformation about the safe-cracker Jimmy Valentine got $250; six years later, $500 for dramatic rights, which gave over $100,000 royalties for playwright Paul Armstrong. Many stories have been made into films.
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April 20, 2021
Not unlike Saki - another erstwhile middle class favourite of Radio 4's - read in a bundle - so to speak - the experience soon becomes tedious and somewhat repetitive. However, whilst Saki's occasional edginess saves perusing a collection from becoming a complete bore of stylistic repetition and a relentless monotone of an upper middle class purview - as regrettably once was - O. Henry's unremittingly wry soothsaying all too soon begins to pall. This being said, when it comes to age contemporary short story fiction writing largely read for pleasure and, perhaps, a trifle of erudition, I can hardly get past my admiration for the short works of H.G.Wells. His style is nothing if not highly robust, and he is every bit at home to dishing out a creative plot as a piece of convincing reportage, laugh out loud inducing comedy, or, of course, thoroughly intriguing fantasy or science fiction.
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