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The best short stories of O. Henry
Title:
The best short stories of O. Henry
Author:
Henry, O., 1862-1910.
ISBN:
9780679601227
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Works. Selections. 1994
Edition:
Modern Library ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library, 1994.
Physical Description:
xii, 340 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
The modern library of the world's best books

Modern library of the world's best books.
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.
Abstract:
Contains thirty-eight stories from the author's mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.