1919. Together with a representative selection of critical and biographical comment. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Another device he used was the surprise ending, usually coming about through coincidence. Contents: Part One, Twelve Stories: The Red Roses of Tonia; Round the Circle; The Rubber Plant's Story; Out of Nazareth; Confessions of a Humorist; The Sparrows in Madison Square; Hearts and Hands; The Cactus; The Detective Detector; The Dog and the Playlet; A Little Talk about Mobs; and The Snow Man. Part Two, Critical and Biographical Comment includes writings about O. Henry by Arthur W. Page, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Leacock, A. St. John Adcock, George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Arthur B. Maurice, Caroline Francis Richardson, and Henry James Forman. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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A TRESTLE burned down on the International Railroad. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Sydney Porter, Madison Square, Pinkney Bloom, The Four Million, Will Porter, Road Runner, Miss Adams, New Orleans, The Trimmed Lamp, Central America, Strictly Business, The Furnished Room, Lone Elm, Municipal Report, Roads of Destiny, Cold Branch, Uncle Tommy, Holly Springs, Union Square, Colonel Blaylock, Dixie Belle, Fifth Avenue, Irving Place, Jeff Peters New!
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A TRESTLE burned down on the International Railroad. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
amazing genius Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sydney Porter, Madison Square, Pinkney Bloom, The Four Million, Will Porter, Road Runner, Miss Adams, New Orleans, The Trimmed Lamp, Central America, Strictly Business, The Furnished Room, Lone Elm, Municipal Report, Roads of Destiny, Cold Branch, Uncle Tommy, Holly Springs, Union Square, Colonel Blaylock, Dixie Belle, Fifth Avenue, Irving Place, Jeff Peters New!
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- The Four Million by O. Henry on 13 pages
- The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry on 10 pages
- The Trimmed Lamp (Large Print) by O Henry on 10 pages
- The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Millions by O. Henry on 7 pages
- Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry on 6 pages
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- Harvey Angell Beats Time by Diana Hendry on 14 pages
- Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search for a Stolen Identity by Perry Allan Snow on 14 pages
- Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Maria Luddy on 4 pages
- Harvey Angell and the Ghost Child by Diana Hendry on 4 pages
- Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by O. Henry in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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