Short Stories

This collection gathers the short stories William Sydney Porter published under the name O. Henry, mainly in the first decade of the twentieth century. Typical settings are New York furnished rooms, shops, and parks, with excursions to the American Southwest and to Central America. Plots turn on coincidence, disguise, and a last-paragraph twist: a stolen umbrella, a Christmas gift, a confidence trick, a cab driver's fare. Recurring types are clerks, shopgirls, hoboes, and talkative narrators. The book is a body of comic and sentimental anecdotes, not a single novel of the city.

Bound in brown cloth blocked with a dark brown design. Dark blue slipcase.