Download or read book The Gift of the Magi written by O. Henry and published by Amila Jay. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.
Download or read book The Complete Works of O Henry written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book O Henry written by David Stuart and published by Scarborough House Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An O Henry find written by Andrew Earl Weatherly and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories written by O. Henry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen captivating stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf," and "The Ransom of Red Chief."
Download or read book The best of O Henry written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Stories of O Henry written by O. Henry and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O. Henry stories: "The Plutonian Fire," "The Princess and the Puma," "By Courier," "The Gift of the Magi," "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein," "Mammon and the Archer," "The Memento," "Springtime A La Carte," "The Last Leaf," "The Skylight Room," "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock," "The Count And The Wedding Guest," "The Romance of a Busy Broker," "The Higher Pragmatism," "While the Auto Waits," "The Social Triangle," "After Twenty Years," "The Green Door," "A Lickpenny Lover," "Lost on Dress Parade," "Transients in Arcadia," "Brickdust Row," "The Furnished Room," "Schools And Schools," "The Defeat of the City," "Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches," "From Each According to his Ability," "The Cabellero's Way," "Hygeia at the Solito," "The Higher Abdication," "A Double-Dyed Deceiver," "Friends in San Rosario," "The Hiding of Black Bill," "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet," "The Man Higher Up," "The Handbook of Hymen," "Telemachus, Friend," "The Lonesome Road," "A Retrieved Reformation," "The Renaissance at Charleroi," "The Thing's the Play," "Tobin's Palm," "A Newspaper Story," "Proof of the Pudding," and "Confessions Of A Humorist."
Download or read book Stories by O Henry written by O. Henry and published by Tor Classics. This book was released on 1989-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...and always. always, endless surprises! The tales of O'Henry--stories as surprising..as life itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Collected Stories of O Henry written by Henry O and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of more than 200 stories arranged in chronological order of publication.
Download or read book Selected Stories From O Henry Classic Reprint written by O. Henry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Stories From O. Henry Broken Wings, The Real Thing, and The Madonna of the Future have at their bases the very plot principle on which 0. Henry rested the group just given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Collected Works of O Henry PART III Whirligigs The Gentle Grafter The Four Million written by O. Henry and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Whirligigs The Gentle Grafter The Four Million
Download or read book Collected Works of O Henry PART II Selected Stories of O Henry The Trimmed Lamp and other Stories of the Four Million Sixes and Sevens written by O. Henry and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Selected Stories of O. Henry The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Sixes and Sevens
Download or read book The O Henry Short Story Collection Volume I written by O'Henry and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O. Henry Short Story Collection - Volume I, to include: The Gift Of The Magi - The Ransom Of Red Chief - Holding Up A Train - 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 - Jimmy 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 Camp Fire 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.
Download or read book The O Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition 2019 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 2019--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. List of 2019 winners: Tessa Hadley John Keeble Moira McCavana Rachel Kondo Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Stephanie Reents Alexia Arthurs Valerie O’Riordan Patricia Engel Kenan Orhan Sarah Hall Bryan Washington Isabella Hammad Weike Wang Caoilinn Hughes Souvankham Thammavongsa Liza Ward Doua Thao Alexander MacLeod John Edgar Wideman Prize Jurors 2019: Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapynar
Download or read book 41 Stories written by O. Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including his most famous works, such as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room,” this collection of forty-one O. Henry short stories demonstrates his extraordinary technical genius. “There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.”—O. Henry Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century—even today a masterful surprise at the end of a story is described as “an O. Henry twist,” and a prominent short fiction award bears his name. Widely known as a master of irony, O. Henry also displayed in his stories dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor. Cunningly arranged according to geographic location, these tales display the wide range of O. Henry’s world, from the streets of his beloved New York City to the heat of Honduras and other exotic locales. With his wonderful plot turns, unexpected climaxes, and deep insights into human nature, O. Henry’s works will live on as prime examples of the well-told tale. Includes an Introduction by Burton Raffel and an Afterword by Laura Furman
Download or read book The Complete Writings of O Henry Volume 14 written by O Henry and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The O Henry Prize Stories 2018 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 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. "The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner "Lucky Dragon," Viet Dinh, Ploughshares "Stop ’n’ Go," Michael Parker, New England Review "Past Perfect Continuous," Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review "Inversion of Marcia," Thomas Bolt, n+1 "Nights in Logar," Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space "How We Eat," Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch "Deaf and Blind," Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?," Jenny Zhang, n+1 "An Amount of Discretion," Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review "Queen Elizabeth," Brad Felver, One Story "The Stamp Collector," Dave King, Fence "More or Less Like a Man," Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies," Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope "Up Here," Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares "The Houses That Are Left Behind," Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review "We Keep Them Anyway," Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review "Solstice," Anne Enright, The New Yorker Prize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent
