O. Henry made his name on last-paragraph reversals, and a 568-page selection gives enough room to watch the trick being set up again and again.
The stories move among shop girls, clerks, drifters, confidence men and small-town Texans, most of them short enough to finish while waiting for a bus. What holds them together is a tone that treats poverty and small deception with affection rather than judgement, and an ending that usually turns the last page on its head. This is the body of work that produced The Gift of the Magi and The Last Leaf, and reading a run of them shows how carefully the surprises were built.
What makes it worth shelf space:
• A wide selection of O. Henry's short fiction in one paperback
• Stories set among New York clerks, shop girls and Texas drifters
• 568 pages, suited to slow reading over weeks rather than one sitting
• Draws on the work behind The Gift of the Magi and The Last Leaf
Good for short-story readers, English literature students and anyone stocking a bedside pile, published by Fingerprint! Publishing and available at Boipoka.
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