Bibliograph

O. Henry, 101 stories, Ben Yagoda, editor

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Label

O. Henry, 101 stories, Ben Yagoda, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

O. Henry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1259531497

Responsibility statement

Ben Yagoda, editor

Series statement

The Library of America, 345

Sub title

101 stories

Summary

"O. Henry, born William Sidney Porter, is well-known today primarily for his short story 'The Gift of the Magi.' But that legacy does short shrift to one of America's most beloved writers, the author of more than 400 short stories whose full range and powers deserve to be ranked alongside Ring Lardner and James Thurber as one of our most accomplished humorists. As Carl Van Doren wrote in 1917, 'no writer in the language seems clever immediately after one has been reading O. Henry.' Here are more than 100 of O. Henry's 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 stories published in Cabbages and Kings while Porter was hiding there to escape an embezzlement indictment, as well as the most generous selection ever published of O. Henry's New York (which he called Baghdad-on-the-Subway) and Texas stories. Also gathered here are previously uncollected stories, and five are published here for the first time. This is the largest selection and the only annotated edition available of O. Henry's stories: the only O. Henry volume you'll need."--, Provided by publisher

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