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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

Name: The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
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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 storiesselected and expertly annotated by best-selling author Ben Yagodaincluding 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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Library of America

Language:

English

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1598536915

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9781598536911