O. Henry
1862-1910
Stories
The Day Resurgent
by
Danny McCree wakes up one morning to find it's Easter Day and his father's on about hippopotamuses.
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8
- Age Rating:
PG
The Venturers
by
A Venturer - one who does not ask a schedule and map from Fate when he begins a journey. Two venturers challenge eachother.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG
A Ramble In Aphasia
by
First-person account of a successful lawyer's sudden loss of memory and the resulting adventure.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG
The Unknown Quantity
by
A heir has an attack of concience and tries to 'pay back' his capitalist father's ill-gotten gains - but finds it harder than he imagined.
- Pages:
7
- Age Rating:
PG
The Fifth Wheel
by
A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG
"What You Want"
by
A man rich enough to despise everything that money can buy goes out and tries to want something that he can't pay for.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG
A Bird Of Bagdad
by
The story of a suitor, a riddle and an ever-helpful restaurenteur.
- Pages:
9
- Age Rating:
PG
The Girl And The Graft
by
A New York gentleman desperate for attention from the press enlists the help of a grafter - who learns a valuable lesson about women.
- Pages:
7
- Age Rating:
PG
The Gift of the Magi
by
A trigic, ironic Christmas for one hard up couple.
- Pages:
5
- Age Rating:
PG
The Girl And The Habit
by
The story of Miss Merriam, the lovely, capable cashier at Hinkle's.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG
Past One At Rodney's
by
A tough gang member wanted for murder meets a lady in a bar.
- Pages:
14
- Age Rating:
PG
An Unfinished Story
by
The narrator's entrance into the afterlife is used to frame a story highlighting the pitiful conditions of one girl's working life.
- Pages:
7
- Age Rating:
PG
Psyche And The Pskyscraper
by
The story of an wholly unphilosophical girl and her two suitors.
- Pages:
8
- Age Rating:
PG
Strictly Business
by
The story behind the celebrated vaudeville team of (Bob) Hart & (Winona) Cherry. A witty tale of theatre folk.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG
The Poet And The Peasant
by
A country boy arrives in the city - but is mistaken for a confidence trickster.
- Pages:
8
- Age Rating:
PG
The Robe Of Peace
by
The strange and incredible truth behind the sudden disappearance of Johnny Bellchambers.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG
Proof Of The Pudding
by
A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
- Pages:
12
- Age Rating:
PG
A Municipal Report
by
A portrait of Nashville through the eyes of an adventurous stranger.
- Pages:
18
- Age Rating:
PG
The Furnished Room
by
A young man searches for his lost love around the filthy bedsits of New York.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG
The Ransom of Red Chief
by
Two kidnappers fail to heed the old adage - never work with children.
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11
- Age Rating:
PG
The Last Leaf
by
It is not Pneumonia alone that is killing Johnsy - for some reason, she has resigned herself to death.
- Pages:
3
- Age Rating:
PG
A Night In New Arabia
by
When millionaire Jacob Spraggins, Esq. hits his late fifties, he begins to worry about his soul's salvation.
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17
- Age Rating:
PG
The Thing's The Play
by
The story of the violinist Ramonti and a woman with two jealous suitors.
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9
- Age Rating:
PG
Babes In The Jungle
by
Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
- Pages:
7
- Age Rating:
PG
The Call Of The Tame
by
An Arizona man on a brief trip to New York bumps into an old friend - but finds him changed by his seven years in the city.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG
The Princess and the Puma
by
A man's attempt to save the woman of his dreams goes embarassingly wrong.
- Pages:
8
- Age Rating:
PG
Compliments Of The Season
by
A narrator who believes that children are pestilential little animals tells a Christmas story about the daughter of the Millionaire and her missing rag-doll.
- Pages:
11
- Age Rating:
PG
The Gold That Glittered
by
General Falcon - revolutionary - arrives in New York from Columbia unprepared for both the golden-haired ladies and the silver-tongued con-artists.
- Pages:
9
- Age Rating:
PG