Complete Western Romance Mystery of O. Henry

An American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

Contents

Contents

Cabbages and Kings (1904)

The Four Million (1906)

The Gentle Grafter (1908)

The Gift of the Magi (1905)

Heart of the West (1907)

Options (1909)

Roads of Destiny (1909)

Rolling Stones (1912)

Sixes and Sevens (1911)

Strictly Business (1910)

The Trimmed Lamp (1906)

The Voice of the City (1919)

Waifs and Strays (1917)

Whirligigs (1910)

The Four Million (1906)

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."

Heart of the West (1907)

Several of the funniest and best stories by O. Henry appear in this new book, which is made up of about twenty-five of his inimitable tales of Western life and types which have appeared at intervals in the magazines. These stories are the best of their kind since Bret Harte.

The Trimmed Lamp (1906)

Free from the too common trick of embellishing actuality with traditional cant, this author wins the intelligent reader through a sympathetic cynicism denoting experience and honesty, the whole expressing itself in most humorous form. Shopgirls and bartenders and pseudo-Bohemians and "that sad company of mariners known as Jersey commuters"--such types are hit off with immense cleverness.