100 selected stories

Klappentext This collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers The variety of the storie is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humour that have made O Henry's stories popular for the last century. Zusammenfassung A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York.

Product details

• Authors: O Henry, O. Henry, Henry O, Henry O.
• Assisted by: Keith Carabine (Editor), Keith Carabine (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.1995
• EAN: 9781853262418
• ISBN: 978-1-85326-241-8
• No. of pages: 752
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Wordsworth Classics; Wadsworth Collection; Wordsworth Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, American Literature, Classic fiction: general and literary, Plot Twists, Last Leaf, Cop and the Anthem, Retrieved reformation, Duplicity of Hargreaves, Gift of the Magi