The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry

As the narrator informs us: ‘The famous sleuth’s thin, intellectual face, piercing eyes, and rate per word are too well known to need description.’ Sound familiar? Only one man can: the famous private consulting detective Shamrock Jolnes. Henry, and a pastiche of the popular Sherlock Holmes stories.Ī man searching for his missing sister in New York realises the official police detective can’t help him. This 1911 story is a more light-hearted tale from O. We won’t spoil the ending, but we will say that the male friend, Mr Behrman, plays an important role in the story’s twist ending.

One of the two women falls ill with pneumonia and it looks likely she will die of the disease – she herself believes that she will perish when the last leaf of the year falls from the last tree.

It focuses on two female artists and their male friend, also an artist. This 1907 story is among his most famous: along with ‘The Gift of the Magi’ it may be the best-known O. But let’s just say the word ‘duplicity’ in this story’s title itself has a double meaning. Then a man claiming to be one of the Major’s former slaves from the antebellum era turns up and offers to help the pair out of hardship …Īs ever, we won’t spoil the ending. Urn:oclc:11702211 Republisher_date 20170817142916 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 405 Scandate 20170816091027 Scanner, the impecunious Major and his daughter are shocked, when they go to see a show, to find Hargraves impersonating the Major in front of the audience. OL15252607W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.16 Pages 378 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0486424685 Urn:lcp:bestshortstories00henr:epub:32748b77-afbc-4504-bcbb-08109519d860 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bestshortstories00henr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t77t1pm78 Invoice 1213 Isbn 0679601228ĩ780679601227 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7699594M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:42:26.690704 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1155521 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Modern Library ed.

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry