O. Henry built his reputation on short fiction that turns in the final paragraph, and this selection gathers the stories that made the technique famous. Shop workers, drifters, clerks and small-time crooks fill the pages.
Most pieces run only a few pages, set in New York boarding houses, offices and streets or further west and south, and the voice stays warm even when the circumstances are hard. The reversals are the draw, but the affection for ordinary people struggling to get by is what keeps the stories in print. A reader can finish several in an evening or keep the book for odd moments.
What comes across on the page:
• A gathered selection of O. Henry's best-known short fiction
• Twist endings delivered in the closing lines
• Settings drawn from working life in New York and beyond
• Story lengths that fit short reading sessions
A good match for readers of short stories, students studying the form and anyone wanting classics in small doses, available at Boipoka.
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