| Description |
2 volumes (xiii, 1692 pages) ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
V. 1. Books 1-6 -- v. 2. Books 7-14. |
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Volume 1. Book 1. The four million : Tobin's palm -- The gift of the Magi -- A cosmopolite in a café -- Between rounds -- The skylight room -- A service of love -- The coming-out of Maggie -- Man about town -- The cop and the anthem -- An adjustment of nature -- Memoirs of a yellow dog -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- Mammon and the archer -- Springtime à la carte -- The green door -- From the cabby's seat -- An unfinished story -- The Caliph, Cupid and the clock -- Sisters of the golden circle -- The romance of a busy broker -- After twenty years -- Lost on dress parade -- By courier -- The furnished room -- The brief début of Tildy. |
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Book 2. Heart of the West : Hearts and crosses -- The ransom of Mack -- Telemachus, friend -- The handbook of Hymen -- The Pimienta pancakes -- Seats of the haughty -- Hygeia at the Solito -- An afternoon miracle -- The higher abdication -- Cupid à la carte -- The caballero's way -- The sphinx apple -- The missing chord -- A call loan -- The princess and the puma -- The Indian summer of Dry Valley Johnson -- Christmas by injunction -- A chaparral prince -- The reformation of Calliope. |
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Book 3. The gentle grafter : The octopus marooned -- Jeff Peters as a personal magnet -- Modern rural sports -- The chair of philanthro-mathematics -- The hand that riles the world -- The exact science of matrimony -- A midsummer masquerade -- Shearing the wolf -- Innocents of Broadway -- Conscience in art -- The man higher up -- A tempered wind -- Hostages to Momus -- The ethics of pig. |
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Book 4. Roads of destiny : Roads of destiny -- The guardian of the accolade -- The discounters of money -- The enchanted profile -- "Next to reading matter" -- Art and the bronco -- Phoebe -- A double-dyed deceiver -- The passing of Black Eagle -- A retrieved reformation -- Cherchez la femme -- Friends in San Rosario -- The fourth in Salvador -- The emancipation of Billy -- The enchanted kiss -- A departmental case -- The renaissance at Charleroi -- On behalf of the management -- Whistling Dick's Christmas stocking -- The halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss -- Two renegades -- The lonesome road. |
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Book 5. Cabbages and kings : The proem: by the carpenter -- "Fox-in-the-morning" -- The lotus and the bottle -- Smith -- Caught -- Cupid's exile number two -- The phonograph and the graph -- Money maze -- The admiral -- The flag paramount -- The shamrock and the palm -- The remnants of the code -- Shoes -- Ships -- Masters of arts -- Dicky -- Rouge et noir -- Two recalls -- The vitagraphoscope. |
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Book 6. Options : "The rose of Dixie" -- The third ingredient -- The hiding of Black Bill -- Schools and schools -- Thimble, thimble -- Supply and demand -- Buried treasure -- To him who waits -- He also serves -- The moment of victory -- The head-hunter -- No story -- The higher pragmatism -- Best-seller -- Rus in Urbe -- A poor rule. |
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Volume 2. Book 7. Sixes and sevens : The last of the troubadours -- The sleuths -- Witches' loaves -- The pride of the cities -- Holding up a train -- Ulysses and the dogman -- The champion of the weather -- Makes the whole world kin -- At arms with Morpheus -- A ghost of a chance -- Jimmie Hayes and Muriel -- The door of unrest -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Let me feel your pulse -- October and June -- The church with an overshot-wheel -- New York by campfire light -- The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes -- The lady higher up -- The greater Coney -- Law and order -- Transformation of Martin Burney -- The caliph and the cad -- The diamond of Kali -- The day we celebrate. |
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Book 8. Rolling stones : The dream -- A ruler of men -- The atavism of John Tom Little Bear -- Helping the other fellow -- The marionettes -- The marquis and Miss Sally -- A fog in Santone -- The friendly call -- A dinner at ... -- Sound and fury -- Tictocq -- Tracked to doom -- A snapshot at the President -- An unfinished Christmas story -- The unprofitable servant -- Aristocracy versus hash -- The prisoner of Zembla -- A strange story -- Fickle fortune or How Gladys hustled -- An apology -- Lord Oakhurst's curse -- Bexar scrip no. 2692 -- Queries and answers. |
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Book 9. Poems : The pewee -- Nothing to say -- The murderer -- Some postscripts -- Two portraits -- A contribution -- The old farm -- Vanity -- The lullaby boy -- Chanson de Bohème -- Hard to forget -- Drop a tear in this slot -- Tamales -- Some letters -- An early parable -- The story of "Holding up a train." |
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Book 10. Whirligigs : The world and the door -- The theory and the hound -- The hypotheses of failure -- Calloway's code -- A matter of mean elevation -- "Girl" -- Sociology in serge and straw -- The ransom of Red Chief -- The marry month of May -- A technical error -- Suite homes and their romance -- The whirligig of life -- A sacrifice hit -- The roads we take -- A blackjack bargainer -- The song and the sergeant -- One dollar's worth -- A newspaper story -- Tommy's burglar -- A chaparral Christmas gift -- A little local colour -- Georgia's ruling -- Blind man's holiday -- Madame Bo-Peep, of the ranches. |
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Book 11. The voice of the city : The voice of the city -- The complete life of John Hopkins -- A lickpenny lover -- Dougherty's eye-opener -- "Little speck in garnered fruit" -- The harbinger -- While the auto waits -- A comedy in rubber -- One thousand dollars -- The defeat of the city -- The shocks of doom -- The Plutonian fire -- Nemesis and the candy man -- Squaring the circle -- Roses, ruses and romance -- The city of dreadful night -- The Easter of the soul -- The fool-killer -- Transients in Arcadia -- The rathskeller and the rose -- The clarion call -- Extradited from Bohemia -- A Philistine in Bohemia -- From each according to his ability -- The memento. |
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Book 12. The trimmed lamp : The trimmed lamp -- A Madison Square Arabian night -- The rubaiyat of a Scotch highball -- The pendulum -- Two Thanksgiving Day gentlemen -- The assessor of success -- The buyer from Cactus City -- The badge of Policeman O'Roon -- Brickdust Row -- The making of a New Yorker -- Vanity and some sables -- The social triangle -- The purple dress -- The foreign policy of Company 99 -- The lost blend -- A Harlem Tragedy -- "The guilty party" -- According to their lights -- A Midsummer Knight's dream -- The last leaf -- The Count and the wedding guest -- The country of Elusion -- The ferry of unfulfilment -- The tale of a tainted tenner -- Elsie in New York. |
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Book 13. Strictly business : Strictly business -- The gold that glittered -- Babes in the jungle -- The day resurgent -- The fifth wheel -- The poet and the peasant -- The robe of peace -- The girl and the graft -- The call of the tame -- The unknown quantity -- The thing's the play -- A ramble in Aphasia -- A municipal report -- Psyche and the pskyscraper -- A bird of Bagdad -- Compliments of the season -- A night in new Arabia -- The girl and the habit -- Proof of the pudding -- Past one at Rooney's -- The venturers -- The duel -- "What you want." |
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Book 14. Waifs and strays : The red roses of Tonia -- Round the circle -- The rubber plant's story -- Out of Nazareth -- Confessions of a humorist -- The sparrows in Madison Square -- Hearts and hands -- The cactus -- The detective detector -- The dog and the playlet -- A little talk about mobs -- The snow man. |
| Summary |
An omnibus containing 286 stories and poems. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Poetry.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Henry, O., 1862-1910. Complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1953 (OCoLC)592694060 |
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Online version: Henry, O., 1862-1910. Complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1953 (OCoLC)612497111 |
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Online version: Henry, O., 1862-1910. Complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1953 (OCoLC)622903400 |
| ISBN |
0385009615 |
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9780385009614 |
