Title: Selected Stories of O. Henry
Author(s): O. Henry; Victoria Blake
Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN: 9781593080426, 1411433130
Extension: EPUB
Size: 673 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Fantasy, United States, American, Short Stories, Fiction - General, Short Stories (single author), Short stories; American, New York (N.Y.), classics, 19th century, Social life and customs, New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs, United States - Social life and customs - 19th century
Categories: Classic Literature, Fiction, Short Stories
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O. Henry mastered the art of the humorous, energetic tale that ends with a sudden, ironic twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman. Behind the rendezvous lurks a powerful dramatic situation with a fascinating moral dilemma-all dealt with in a few brief pages.
This is just one of the many literary gems in Selected Stories of O. Henry, a collection of 45 of O. Henry's most renowned and entertaining short stories. Each one offers insights into human nature and the ways it is affected by love, hate, wealth, poverty, gentility, disguise, and crime-themes that ran through the author's own life. Born William Sidney Porter, O. Henry started writing while in prison for embezzlement. Later he moved to New York, and his tales romanticizing the commonplace, particularly the life of ordinary New Yorkers, became highly popular. The most widely read author of his time, O. Henry died penniless but left behind a wealth of short stories that endure as classics of the genre.
Victoria Blakeis a freelance writer. She has worked at The Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.
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