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One of the most famous pseudonym's in history, the name O. Henry evokes wordplay that is dazzling, inventive, wry, and humorous. This anthology includes forty-one stories that continue to captivate generation after generation of readers, including "The Gift of the Magi", "The Furnished Room", and those which demonstrate the technical genius and wide range of O. Henry's world.]]> Tue, 16 Oct 1984 12:59:00 +0300 A Dance of Folly and Pleasure: Stories https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/43457-a_dance_of_folly_and_pleasure_stories.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/43457-a_dance_of_folly_and_pleasure_stories.html

Step into the boarding houses and furnished rooms of New York City, or take a stroll around the park. Observe the tumult and glitter of Broadway on a Saturday night, and browse the silken stockings in Manhattan's most exclusive store. Hop onto the Coney Island ferry to join the lovesick shop-girl, the drunken down-and-out and the secret millionaire in the city's dance of folly and pleasure. Bringing to life the glamour and squalor of the 1900s, O. Henry's unmistakable tales are by turns hilarious or tragic, but always deeply poignant.]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:59:00 +0300 The Four Million https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/43459-the_four_million.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/43459-the_four_million.html

O. Henry is the knight of the shop-girl and the waitress; of the wandering, homeless tramp; of poverty-stricken young married folk; of hundreds of lonely human beings who live within the dirty, gloomy wall of two-dollar-a-week boarding house rooms - of the great mass of humanity not included in the "four hundred", the everyday men and women of New York's East Side.
The Four Million contains O. Henry's best and most characteristic work: the famous Gift of the Magi, the moving story of a young couple who sacrifice their most prized possessions to buy Christmas presents for each other; Soapy, the brilliant tale of a tramp who desperately attempts to break the law in order to be sent to prison so that he will have a home for the winter months; An Unfinished Story, which is a stern reproval of the employer who underpays his shop-girls - and many others. Unforgettable stories - humorous, poignant, penetrating - by "the most widely discussed and most popular short story writer of his generation." (from the back cover)]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 O. Henry for the Holidays https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/714812-o_henry_for_the_holidays.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/714812-o_henry_for_the_holidays.html

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR BOOK LOVERS: Get all 7 of O. Henry’s classic Thanksgiving and Christmas stories, including "The Gift of the Magi," in one short story collection!
Complete with helpful notes about each short story's biographical and cultural contexts
“There are just as many real Christmas stories as ever, if we would only dig ’em up,” wrote William Sydney Porter. The first short story he published under the pen name O. Henry was a holiday tale (“Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking”), while his best-known work, “The Gift of the Magi,” has inspired countless Yuletide movies and television episodes. Library of America presents all seven of his seasonal offerings—including two about Thanksgiving, the “one day that is purely American”:

The Purple Dress

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking

A Chaparral Christmas...]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:56:01 +0200 O. Henry https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/594111-o_henry.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/594111-o_henry.html

The ultimate O. Henry: an annotated edition of classic tales by America's master storyteller
O. Henry, born William Sidney Porter, is best known today for his short story "The Gift of the Magi." But that legacy doesn't begin to capture the genius and the extraordinary range of a gifted humorist who deserves to be ranked among the best in our literature, alongside Ring Lardner and James Thurber. As Carl Van Doren wrote in 1917, "no writer in the language seems clever immediately after one has been reading O. Henry."
Here are 101 of O. Henry's very best short stories—selected and expertly annotated by best-selling author Ben Yagoda—including not only such favorites as "The Ransom of Red Chief" and "The Last of the Troubadours" but also "The Caballero's Way," which created the character of The Cisco Kid, a murderous desperado in O. Henry's telling, and "The Cop and the Anthem." This volume represents stories from all of O. Henry's collections, including the Honduras...]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:05:06 +0300 The Gentle Grafter https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/9887-the_gentle_grafter.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/9887-the_gentle_grafter.html

A trust is its weakest point, said Jeff Peters. "That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a policeman?'" "It is not," said Jeff. "There are no relations between a trust and a policeman. My remark was an ep]]> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:43:54 +0300 Whirligigs https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/382989-whirligigs.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/382989-whirligigs.html

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Step into the boarding houses and furnished rooms of New York City, or take a stroll around the park. Observe the tumult and glitter of Broadway on a Saturday night, and browse the silken stockings in Manhattan's most exclusive store. Hop onto the Coney Island ferry to join the lovesick shop-girl, the drunken down-and-out and the secret millionaire in the city's dance of folly and pleasure. Bringing to life the glamour and squalor of the 1900s, O. Henry's unmistakable tales are by turns hilarious or tragic, but always deeply poignant.]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:36:53 +0200 The Complete Works of O. Henry https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/391800-the_complete_works_of_o_henry.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/391800-the_complete_works_of_o_henry.html

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Collected in this book (Golgotha Press, 2010) is a giant anthology of his work, including the stories, some early verses and a few letters.]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:36:54 +0200 A Ruler of Men https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/391801-a_ruler_of_men.html https://dystopia.library.land/o-henry/391801-a_ruler_of_men.html

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