O. Henry

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Born:
Sept. 11, 1862
Died:
June 5, 1910

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O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. ([Source][1].)

[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

Books by O. Henry

W. Somerset Maugham, Frank O'Connor, John O'Hara, O. Henry, Rabindranath Tagore, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Wallace Stegner, Maksim Gorky, D. H. Lawrence, Damon Runyon, Paul Horgan, Dorothy L. Sayers, M. R. James, Henry Lawson, Bertolt Brecht, Colette, Katherine Anne Porter, Albert Camus, Irwin Shaw, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Parker, Saki, Truman Capote, Rumer Godden, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, , Shirley Jackson, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Stafford, Alberto Moravia, Graham Greene, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Editors of The Reader's Digest, Guy de Maupassat, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Corrado Alvaro, Lilika Nakos, Jessamyn West, Josh Gregory, Sally Benson, Thomas Head Raddall, Sholem Aleichem, Richard Ellmann, James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Santha Rama Rau, Nigel Balchin, Leo Kennedy, Katherine Mansfield, Marcel Aymé, Doris Lessing, Eudora Welty, Pearl S. Buck, S. J. Perelman, John Steinbeck, Hernando Tellez, Hjalmar Söderberg, Max Aub, Karen Blixen, Roy, Gabrielle, Ring Lardner, Luigi Pirandello, Anatole France: Great Short Stories of the World (Hardcover, 1981, Reader's Digest Association, Reader's Digest)

Great Short Stories of the World

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Bret Harte, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Edward Everett, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Jessup, George Pope Morris, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, Wells Hastings, H. C. Bunner: The Best American Humorous Short Stories (EBook, 2009, The Floating Press)

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The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Anna Quindlen, Virginia Hamilton, Wendy Rose, Bill Cosby, Mark Twain, Chief Dan George, Pat Mora, Cynthia Rylant, Ray Bradbury, James Ramsey Ullman, Aesop, Lewis Carroll, James Stephens, Karen Cushman, Emily Dickinson, Alex Haley, Rod Serling, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Robert Service, Laurence Yep, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, Bashō Matsuo, Jon Krakauer, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Olivia E. Coolidge, Courlander, Harold, Jacqueline Dineen, Reid Goldsborough, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Barbara Jordan, William W. Lace, Don Lessem, Naomi Long Madgett, Eve Merriam, Zora Neale Hurston, Alfred Noyes, Raymond R. Patterson, Langston Hughes, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, Walter Dean Myers, William Jay Smith, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Nikki Giovanni, Piri Thomas, Sandra Cisneros, Annie Dillard, Rudyard Kipling, James Herriot, Walter De la Mare, Jack Finney, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Russell Baker, Robert Frost, Maxine Kumin, Edward D. Hoch, Lucille Clifton, Gary Soto, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Ogden Nash, William Saroyan, James Dickey, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Charles Osgood, Ernesto Galarza, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Kate Kinsella, Gillian Standing, Paul Stillwell, Jim Willard, Terry Willard, Jane Wilson, Thomas Hardy: Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Pearson Prentice Hall) No rating

Literature

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O. Henry, Annie Dillard, Gish Jen, Frances Goodrich, Arthur Conan Doyle, Albert Hackett, Robert MacNeil, Jack London, Mona Gardner, Naomi Shihab Nye, Felton, Harold W., Mark Twain, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Rosemary Carr Benet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ray Bradbury, Carl Sandburg, Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Prentice-Hall, Bruce Brooks: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Paperback, 2002, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

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O. Henry: 41 stories (1984, New American Library) No rating

41 stories

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O. Henry: The Ransom of Red Chief (2001, Oxford University Press)

The Ransom of Red Chief

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O. Henry: Last Leaf (Jamestown Classics) (Paperback, 1979, Jamestown Publishers)

Last Leaf (Jamestown Classics)

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O. Henry, O' Henry: The Best of O'Henry (Hardcover, 1989, Bantam Books)

The Best of O'Henry

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O. Henry: Roads of Destiny (Hardcover, 2007, 1st World Library - Literary Society)

Roads of Destiny

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Anne McCaffrey, William Shakespeare, O. Henry, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Richard Wright, Derek Walcott, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Homer, John G. Neihardt, Wisława Szymborska, Bruce Chatwin, Tomás Rivera, Paule Marshall, Sumner Braunstein, Sui Wai Anderson, Basho, Marchette Gaylord Chute, Richard Connell, Walter De La Mere, Grant Moss Jr., Marge Piercy, James C. Rettie, Christina Rosetti, Saki, Frank R. Stockton, Constantine P. Cavafy, Chiyojo, Toni Cade Bambara, Leslie Marmon Silko, Amy Tan, Mark Twain, Chief Dan George, William Wordsworth, James Hurst, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriela Mistral, Robert Browning, Sally Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Simon J. Ortiz, John Updike, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Gordon Parks, Thor Heyerdahl, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Ellmann, T. S. Eliot, John McPhee, Robert Frost, Gibson, William, Donald Justice, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Lewis Carroll, James Weldon Johnson, Arthur C. Clarke, John Masefield, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Morley Callaghan, Edgar Lee Masters, Yoshiko Uchida, E. E. Cummings, Isabel Allende, William Least Heat Moon, Margaret Atwood, Ellen Harkins Wheat, Gary Soto, Margaret Walker, Gabriel García Márquez, Martin Luther King Jr.: Prentice Hall: Literature (Hardcover, 1994, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall: Literature

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O. Henry: El poli y el himno

El poli y el himno

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William Shakespeare, Wisława Szymborska, Constantine P. Cavafy, Chiyojo, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, Ishmael Reed, Chief Dan George, Mark Twain, Joan Didion, James Hurst, Lady Bird Johnson, , Gabriela Mistral, Edwin Muir, Sally Ride, Cynthia Rylant, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sebastian Junger, Ray Bradbury, John McPhee, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Galway Kinnell, Julia Alvarez, Richard Brautigan, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Pattiann Rogers, Homer, Alice Walker, John Keats, Tomás Rivera, Marge Piercy, James A. Michener, Toni Cade Bambara, Naomi Shihab Nye, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Bill Gates, Yusef Komunyakaa, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Courlander, Harold, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Rachel Carson, Mitch Albom, Langston Hughes, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter Dean Myers, Lillian Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Martin Luther King Jr., R.K. Narayan, Edith Hamilton, Scott McCloud, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Walter De la Mare, Margaret Walker, Richard Connell, Lorraine Hansberry, Christina Rosetti, Saki, Isaac Asimov, William Wordsworth, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Robert Frost, Sara Teasdale, Arthur C. Clarke, William Stafford, Isabel Allende, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeffrey Kluger, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Basho, Madeleine Blais, Barry Lopez, DeWitt Bodeen, Gladys Cardiff, Alex Chadwick, Keav Davidson, Horton Foote, Steven Gietschier, Ralph Helfer, George Herzog, Shirley Jackson, John E. Kennedy, Henriqueta Lisboa, David Schuyler, Edward Lawrence Thayer, Shu, Ting, Virginia A. Walter, James Thurber, Bryan Woolley, Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea Stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson, Carl Sandburg, Kate Kinsella, Daphne Du Maurier: Prentice Hall Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall Literature

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O. Henry: Selected stories (1993, Penguin Books) No rating

Selected stories

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O. Henry, Sydney Porter: The complete works of O. Henry, [i.e.] W. S. Porter] (1953, Doubleday) No rating

The complete works of O. Henry, [i.e.] W. S. Porter]

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