O. Henry

Author details

Aliases:
א הענרי, Ohenry, O'Genri, and 19 others Oliver Henry, O Henri, أو. هنري،, William Sydney Porter O'Henry, O. Henri, W.S.P. O'Henry, هنري، و.،, O. Genri, O. Henry, או הנרי, オー・ヘンリー, וילים סידני פורטר, O Genri, هنري، أو, William Sydney Porter, О Генри, Olivier Henry, O'Henry, O'Guenri
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

Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Truman Capote, John Steinbeck, Doris Lessing, Joseph Conrad, Shirley Jackson, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Richard Ellmann, Machado de Assis, Katherine Mansfield, Wallace Stegner, William Somerset Maugham, Bertolt Brecht, Rabindranath Tagore, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Parker, , Maksim Gorky, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Crane, John O'Hara (duplicate), Irwin Shaw, M. R. James, Pearl S. Buck, Alberto Moravia, Katherine Anne Porter, Anatole France, James Thurber, Rumer Godden, O. Henry, Paul Horgan, Hjalmar Söderberg, Karen Blixen, Colette, Graham Greene, Jean Stafford, Saki, Marcel Aymé, Max Aub, Frank O'Connor, Ring Lardner, Roy, Gabrielle, D. H. Lawrence, Sholem Aleichem, Henry Lawson, Hernando Tellez, S. J. Perelman, 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, Robert Benchley, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Santha Rama Rau, Nigel Balchin, Leo Kennedy: 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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Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Frank R. Stockton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Edward Everett, H. C. Bunner, 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: 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, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Bashō Matsuo, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Alice Walker, Jon Krakauer, Edith Wharton, Ernesto Galarza, Sherwood Anderson, Jack Finney, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Anna Quindlen, Charles Osgood, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Laurence Yep, Annie Dillard, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Haley, Robert Service, Walter Dean Myers, Emily Dickinson, James Herriot, James Dickey, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walter De la Mare, Aesop, Lucille Clifton, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Karen Cushman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost, Maxine Kumin, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Ogden Nash, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Nikki Giovanni, Wendy Rose, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edward D. Hoch, Rod Serling, Bill Cosby, Chief Dan George, Pat Mora, Cynthia Rylant, Zora Neale Hurston, James Stephens, Piri Thomas, Russell Baker, James Ramsey Ullman, 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, Alfred Noyes, Raymond R. Patterson, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, William Jay Smith, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Kate Kinsella, Gillian Standing, Paul Stillwell, Jim Willard, Terry Willard, Jane Wilson: Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Pearson Prentice Hall) No rating

Literature

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Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Jack London, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Annie Dillard, Walter Dean Myers, Gish Jen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carl Sandburg, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, O. Henry, Felton, Harold W., Prentice-Hall, Bruce Brooks, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Robert MacNeil, Mona Gardner, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Rosemary Carr Benet: 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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William Shakespeare, Homer, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, John McPhee, T. S. Eliot, Martin Luther King Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, William Least Heat Moon, Guy de Maupassant, Richard Ellmann, Isabel Allende, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Marge Piercy, Anne McCaffrey, Wisława Szymborska, Gibson, William, Edgar Allan Poe, John Updike, Edgar Lee Masters, Richard Wright, Leslie Marmon Silko, Bruce Chatwin, John Masefield, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Amy Tan, Margaret Walker, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Derek Walcott, Frank R. Stockton, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Thor Heyerdahl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, Theodore Roethke, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Robert Browning, Toni Cade Bambara, Tomás Rivera, Simon J. Ortiz, Saki, Gordon Parks, Constantine P. Cavafy, Chiyojo, Chief Dan George, James Hurst, Gabriela Mistral, Sally Ride, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Morley Callaghan, Paule Marshall, Yoshiko Uchida, Donald Justice, John G. Neihardt, Sumner Braunstein, Sui Wai Anderson, Basho, Marchette Gaylord Chute, Richard Connell, Walter De La Mere, Grant Moss Jr., James C. Rettie, Christina Rosetti, Ellen Harkins Wheat: 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, Homer, Margaret Atwood, Scott McCloud, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Joan Didion, John McPhee, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Alice Walker, Mitch Albom, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Brautigan, Arthur C. Clarke, Shirley Jackson, Daphne Du Maurier, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Ishmael Reed, Maya Angelou, Guy de Maupassant, James A. Michener, Nelson Mandela, Isabel Allende, E. E. Cummings, Rachel Carson, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, William Wordsworth, Jeffrey Kluger, Marge Piercy, Wisława Szymborska, Barry Lopez, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, , R.K. Narayan, Richard Wright, Walter Dean Myers, Emily Dickinson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Galway Kinnell, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Margaret Walker, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walter De la Mare, Julia Alvarez, Naomi Shihab Nye, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Frost, Sara Teasdale, William Stafford, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Toni Cade Bambara, Bill Gates, Tomás Rivera, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saki, Sebastian Junger, Constantine P. Cavafy, Chiyojo, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, Chief Dan George, James Hurst, Lady Bird Johnson, Gabriela Mistral, Edwin Muir, Sally Ride, Cynthia Rylant, Leslie Marmon Silko, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Courlander, Harold, Pattiann Rogers, Rosa Parks, Kate Kinsella, Lillian Morrison, Richard Connell, Christina Rosetti, Basho, Madeleine Blais, DeWitt Bodeen, Gladys Cardiff, Alex Chadwick, Keav Davidson, Horton Foote, Steven Gietschier, Ralph Helfer, George Herzog, John E. Kennedy, Henriqueta Lisboa, David Schuyler, Edward Lawrence Thayer, Shu, Ting, Virginia A. Walter, Bryan Woolley, Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea Stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson: 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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Tricia Hedge, O. Henry: OBWL2: New Yorkers Short Stories: Level 2 (Paperback, Oxford University Press, USA)

OBWL2: New Yorkers Short Stories: Level 2

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