O. Henry
1862-1910

Stories

The Day Resurgent

Danny McCree wakes up one morning to find it's Easter Day and his father's on about hippopotamuses.
- Pages:
8
- Age Rating:
PG

The Venturers

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

First-person account of a successful lawyer's sudden loss of memory and the resulting adventure.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG

The Unknown Quantity

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

A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG

"What You Want"

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

The Girl And The Graft

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

An Unfinished Story

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

Strictly Business

The story behind the celebrated vaudeville team of (Bob) Hart & (Winona) Cherry. A witty tale of theatre folk.
- Pages:
13
- Age Rating:
PG

The Robe Of Peace

The strange and incredible truth behind the sudden disappearance of Johnny Bellchambers.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG

Proof Of The Pudding

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

The Duel

An artist and a businessman travel from the west to seek their fortunes in New York.
- Pages:
6
- Age Rating:
PG

The Last Leaf

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

When millionaire Jacob Spraggins, Esq. hits his late fifties, he begins to worry about his soul's salvation.
- Pages:
17
- Age Rating:
PG

Babes In The Jungle

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

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

Compliments Of The Season

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

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