Set aside the cares and stresses of your day and take a tour through the lives of a wonderfully diverse collection of early-twentieth-century Americans in this charming collection of tales from O. Henry. Each story is a perfectly polished wonder of brevity, vivid characterization, and wit. Taken as
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
β Scribed by O. Henry
- Book ID
- 111185585
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781620127643
- ASIN
- B000FC2218
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This collection of short stories from American author O. Henry brings together a motley cast of characters from all walks of life--stage actors, blackmailers, soldiers, waitresses, and average citizens--and adds in an array of unexpected plot twists and other surprises. For fans of short fiction, it doesn't get much better than this.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
This collection of twenty-five short stories includes some of O. Henry's finest works. The book title, *The Four Million,* is attributed to the population of New York City in the early 1900s, and many of the stories are set there. O. Henry's empathetic tales give names and faces to everyday people,
More authors. More stories. The same bestselling universe. Itβs the Twenty-Second Century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and weβve found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our pos