The paper received a cablegram of perplexing nonsense from Calloway. His coworkers searched without success for some meaning, until it was shown to Vesey, a young reporter. This is the fifth story in the preview of Complete Stories. Soapy, a vagrant, is in the park. Winter is in the air. To meet his needs, he wants to be sent to jail for about three months. He decides on a few petty crimes that will result in the desired sentence.
This is the ninth story in the preview of Complete Stories. Rushmore Coglan talks about his travels and his familiarity with the globe. He proclaims his impartiality and decries any attachment to a particular place. Robert Walmsley, a former country boy, is a successful Manhattan lawyer and respected city gentleman.
He married a high-status, inaccessible woman, Alicia Van Der Pool. Murray is in a cell on death row. The time for his execution is almost here. He talks to his friend Bonifacio in a nearby cell.
He is also visited by a reverend. When someone goes to live in New York, whether rich or poor and for whatever reason, they have to fight. The battle is between becoming a New Yorker and friend of the city, or remaining an outsider and enemy. William, a business man, and Jack, an artist arrive in New York at the same time. Four years later they meet for lunch. Major Pendleton Talbot and his daughter, Miss Lydia, move into a boarding house. The Major is finishing up his memoirs. Another boarder, Hargraves, is a comedian at a vaudeville theater.
He takes a liking to the Major and listens to his stories. Vuyning is bored with the company at his club—the members always say the same things. He is also preoccupied with Miss Allison, who has refused his proposals five times. While out walking, he meets Schrumm, a con-man and thief.
Vuyning is pleased that something is changing his usual routine. A young man searches boarding houses looking for the woman he loves, a small-town girl trying to break in to show business.
Miss Merriam is a cashier at a downtown restaurant. She sits at a desk behind woven wire fencing. On top of her official duties, she has to fend off the invitations, offers and advances of the male patrons.
Endowed with a strong spirit of adventure, he locates the door and knocks. A marshal boards a train handcuffed to a prisoner. They sit opposite a beautiful woman who recognizes the marshal.
Henry: an annotated edition of classic tales by America's master storyteller Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter—better known as O. This Library of America volume offers a fresh look at the full range of his literary genius. Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year.
An Anchor Books Original. The O. Henry Prize Stories continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices.
Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a Turkish coal mine and a drought-ridden Northwestern farm, and feature an engaging array of characters, including Laotian refugees, a Colombian kidnap victim, an eccentric Irish schoolteacher, a woman haunted by a house that cleans itself, and a strangely long-lived rabbit.
The uniformly breathtaking stories are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.
Tales of laughter and tears, love and loss Tales of old and young, rich and poor, the best and the worst Tales of lies and truth, selfishness and sacrifice, loyalty and betrayal O'Henry's stories are set in mansions and slums, teeming cities and desolate frontiers.
Stories of grand adventure, thrilling romance, gripping suspense, hilarious comedy. Stories about turns of fate, twists of destiny, accidents of chance The tales of O'Henry--stories as surprising.. William Sydney Porter , better known as O. Henry, led a life similar to those of his own fictional characters.
Convicted of embezzlement, he drew inspiration from his prison experiences. Two hundred and twelve short stories display O. Henry's insights into human emotions and the human condition as well as portraying life from the American West to the tenements of New York City.
Henry Prize Stories contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.
A classic anthology of short fiction by the acclaimed author gathers concise stories about New York City, confidence men, hoboes, the West, South America, and the American South, including such famed works as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Furnished Room. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever.
To read these stories--about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude--is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves. With East Side tenements, Wall Street offices, and Fifth Avenue as their backdrops, these colorful tales by a master storyteller recount the dreams and passions of New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century.
My chair-car was profitably we ll filled with people of the kind one usuall y sees on. Most of them were ladies in brown-silk dresses cut with square yokes, with. Jump to navigation. The classic short story The Gift of the Magi is the most famous of O. Henry's stories, but the stories that follow in this collection give the reader a deeper and richer sample of O.
Henry's storytelling. This collection of short stories gives the reader a wonderful selection of characters from the United States of years ago.
No problem. An example of this can be seen in the quotation above. The story looks at themes of love and sacrifice, wealth and poverty, and the nature of true beauty. The fact is that the leaden heart had snapped right in two. Henry was the.
For your convenience, we've divided this post into two parts: 1. Feel free to jump to the section that you prefer! These individual short stories are the best of the best — and the even better news is that they're available for free online for you to peruse. From classics published in the s to a short story that exploded in late , here are ten of the greatest free short stories for you to read. While not exactly a philosophical or political tale like our first two examples, this twisty short story from Dahl does delve into some shady moral territory.
Which is all very good. Delia finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a.
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