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The best short stories of O. Henry / selected and with an introduction by Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell.

by Henry, O., 1862-1910.

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Modern Library, 1994.

United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

9780679601227 (recycled acid-free paper)

0679601228 (recycled acid-free paper)

xii, 340 p. ; 20 cm.

The gift of the Magi -- A cosmopolite in a café -- Man about town -- The cop and the anthem -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- Mammon and the archer -- Springtime à la carte -- From the cabby's seat -- An unfinished story -- The romance of a busy broker -- The furnished room -- Roads of destiny -- The enchanted profile -- The passing of Black Eagle -- A retrieved reformation -- The renaissance at Charleroi -- Shoes -- Ships -- The hiding of Black Bill -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- The ransom of Red Chief -- The merry month of May -- The whirligig of life -- A blackjack bargainer -- A lickpenny lover -- The defeat of the city -- Squaring the circle -- Transients in Arcadia -- The trimmed lamp -- The pendulum -- Two Thanksgiving Day gentlemen -- The making of a New Yorker -- The lost blend -- A Harlem tragedy -- A midsummer knight's dream -- The last leaf -- The count and the wedding guest -- A municipal report.

Contains thirty-eight stories from the author's mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.

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