Best Short Stories of O. Henry
Stock No: WW601228
Best Short Stories of O. Henry   -     By: O. Henry

Best Short Stories of O. Henry

Random House Inc / 1994 / Hardcover

In Stock
Stock No: WW601228

Buy Item Our Price$23.40 Retail: $26.00 Save 10% ($2.60)
In Stock
Quantity:
Stock No: WW601228
Random House Inc / 1994 / Hardcover
Quantity:

Add To Cart

or checkout with

Add To Wishlist
Quantity:


Add To Cart

or checkout with

Wishlist

Product Close-up
This product is not available for expedited shipping.
* This product is available for shipment only to the USA.

Product Description

This book contains the following stories by O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi; A Cosmopolite in a Cafe; Man About Town; The Cop and the Anthem; The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein; Mammon and the Archer; Springtime a 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 Marry 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.

Product Information

Title: Best Short Stories of O. Henry
By: O. Henry
Format: Hardcover
Vendor: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1994
Dimensions: 7.58 X 5.09 X 1.16 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0679601228
ISBN-13: 9780679601227
Stock No: WW601228

Publisher's Description

The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.  The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller.  They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.  They give the full range and flavor of the man born William Sydney Porter but known throughout the world as O. Henry, one of the great masters of the short story.

Author Bio

The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

Ask a Question

Author/Artist Review