{"product_id":"selected-stories","title":"Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by O. Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEighty short stories by a master of the genre \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eO. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories--about con men and tricksters and \"innocent\" deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence--have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry's mastery of speech and place, and highlight his appreciation of life's quirks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eSelected StoriesIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Four Million (1906)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Coming-Out of Maggie\u003cbr\u003eA Service of Love\u003cbr\u003eBetween Rounds\u003cbr\u003eAn Unfinished Story\u003cbr\u003eAfter Twenty Years\u003cbr\u003eBy Courier\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Trimmed Lamp (1907)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pendulum\u003cbr\u003eThe Buyer from Cactus City\u003cbr\u003eBrickdust Row\u003cbr\u003eThe Foreign Policy of Company 99\u003cbr\u003eThe Count and the Wedding Guest\u003cbr\u003eThe Country of Elusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Heart of the West (1907)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ransom of Mack\u003cbr\u003eThe Higher Abdication\u003cbr\u003eA Call Loan\u003cbr\u003eThe Princess and the Puma\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson\u003cbr\u003eThe Reformation of Calliope\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Voice of the City (1908)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Complete Life of Johns Hopkins\u003cbr\u003eDoughtery's Eye-Opener\u003cbr\u003eWhile the Auto Waits\u003cbr\u003eThe Defeat of the City\u003cbr\u003eThe Plutonian Fire\u003cbr\u003eSquaring the Circle\u003cbr\u003eThe Fool-Killer\u003cbr\u003eTransients in Arcadia\u003cbr\u003eExtradited from Bohemia\u003cbr\u003eFrom Each According to His Ability\u003cbr\u003eThe Memento\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Gentle Grafter (1908)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff Peters as a Personal Magnet\u003cbr\u003eModern Rural Sports\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Higher Up\u003cbr\u003eHostages to Momus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Roads of Destiny (1909)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Guardian of the Accolade\u003cbr\u003ePhoebe\u003cbr\u003eA Double-Dyed Deceiver\u003cbr\u003eA Retrieved Reformation\u003cbr\u003eFriends in San Rosario\u003cbr\u003eThe Emancipation of Billy\u003cbr\u003eA Departmental Case\u003cbr\u003eThe Renaissance at Charleroi\u003cbr\u003eTwo Renegades\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Options (1909)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Rose of Dixie\"\u003cbr\u003eSchools and Schools\u003cbr\u003eThimble, Thimble\u003cbr\u003eThe Moment of Victory\u003cbr\u003eNo Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Strictly Business (1910)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Gold That Glittered\u003cbr\u003eThe Day Resurgent\u003cbr\u003eThe Thing's the Play\u003cbr\u003eA Municipal Report\u003cbr\u003eProof of the Pudding\u003cbr\u003eThe Venturers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Whirligigs (1910)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Theory and the Hound\u003cbr\u003eThe Ransom of Red Chief\u003cbr\u003eThe Whirligig of Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Roads We Take\u003cbr\u003eA Blackjack Bargainer\u003cbr\u003eOne Dollar's Worth\u003cbr\u003eMadame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Sixes and Sevens (1911)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitches' Loaves\u003cbr\u003eThe Duplicity of Hargraves\u003cbr\u003eOctober and June\u003cbr\u003eThe Church with an Overshot-Wheel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Rolling Stones (1912)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Atavism of John Tom Little Bear\u003cbr\u003eThe Marquis and Miss Sally\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Waifs and Strays (1917)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of Nazareth\u003cbr\u003eHearts and Hands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Sydney Porter\u003c\/b\u003e (1862-1910) published all of his work--a novel and some 300 short stories--under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature, local tone, narrative agility, and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle's drugstore as a youth, becoming a certified pharmacist. Like many Southerners after the Civil War, he sought his fortune in the West, holding various jobs (newspaper work, clerking in a land office, a teller at an Austin bank). Charged with embezzlement in 1894, he fled to Honduras, returning in 1897 to be with his ill and dying wife. His conviction was caused more by his eluding trial than by the conflicting evidence of theft. In the Ohio State Penitentiary (1898-1901), he began to write the stories that made him famous. He moved to New York, remarried, and kept his identity a secret from all but a few friends. He is buried in Asheville, North Carolina. He is universally honored for his mastery of the short story and for his humane spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Davenport\u003c\/b\u003e, a critic and writer of fiction, is best known for two books of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Geography of the Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEvery Force Evolves a Form\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published seven collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. Now retired, he was a professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990. 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