100Selected Stories O. Henry
Product details
Binding: Paperback
752 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth
Language: English
Level: Advance
Full text
Package Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounce
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex
This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer
Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas
These stories are famed for their ‘trick endings’ or ‘twists in the tail’: repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry’s cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso’s command of language and allusion
This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions
Stories include:
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Last Leaf
- The Duplicity of Hargreaves
- A Retrieved Reformation
