The short story is a fundamental part of the greatness of American literature. Nearly every author of note has turned their hand to it at some point in their career. This volume contains a broad selection of authors and styles including O. Henry, Mark Twain and others.
The short story is a fundamental part of the greatness of American literature. Nearly every author of note has turned their hand to it at some point i...
ONE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
ONE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer an...
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings.
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel written by O.Henry, set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, a poem featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.
A series of stories which each explore some...
Cabbages and Kings
By O. Henry
A Collection of Short Stories
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name...
Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Katie Mahorner, his sweetheart, of County Sligo, lost since she started for America three months before with two hundred dollars, her own savings, and one hundred dollars from the sale of Tobin's inherited estate, a fine cottage and pig on the Bog Shannaugh. And since the letter that Tobin got saying that she had started to come to him not a bit of news had he heard or seen of Katie Mahorner. Tobin advertised in the papers, but nothing could be...
Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Kati...
This the twelfth and final volume of O. Henry's work gets its title from an early newspaper venture of which he was the head and front. On April 28, 1894, there appeared in Austin, Texas, volume 1, number 3, of The Rolling Stone, with a circulation greatly in excess of that of the only two numbers that had gone before. Apparently the business office was encouraged. The first two issues of one thousand copies each had been bought up. Of the third an edition of six thousand was published and distributed free, so that the business men of Austin, Texas, might know what a good medium was at hand...
This the twelfth and final volume of O. Henry's work gets its title from an early newspaper venture of which he was the head and front. On April 28, 1...
Clearly a literary great, O. Henry gave his gift to the world many years ago with this classic short story. "The Gift of the Magi" brings the reader into an interesting story of true unselfish love in the early 1900s. Enjoy Henry's imagination as you discover what happens when a young husband and wife desperately and secretly try to obtain a gift for each other despite their poor financial situation. Large Print Richard Foster Classics Collection
Clearly a literary great, O. Henry gave his gift to the world many years ago with this classic short story. "The Gift of the Magi" brings the reader i...
