Best stories of O. Henry

Author(s)

• Henry, O.
• Cerf, Bennett
• Cartmell, Van Henry

Bibliographic Information

Best stories of O. Henry

selected, and with an introd. by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell

Garden City Books, c1945

Contents of Works

• The gift of the magi
• A cosmopolite in a cafe
• Man about town
• The cop and the anthem
• The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
• Mammon and the archer
• Springtime à la carte
• From the cabby's seat
• An unfinished story
• The romance of a busy broker
• The furnished room
• Roads of destiny
• The enchanted profile
• The passing of Black Eagle
• A retrieved reformation
• The renaissance at Charleroi
• Shoes
• Ships
• The hiding of Black Bill
• The duplicity of Hargraves
• The ransom of Red Chief
• The marry month of May
• The whirligig of life
• A blackjack bargainer
• A lickpenny lover
• The defeat of the city
• Squaring the circle
• Transients in Arcadia
• The trimmed lamp
• The pendulum
• Two Thanksgiving Day gentlemen
• The making of a New Yorker
• The lost blend
• A Harlem tragedy
• A midsummer knight's dream
• The last leaf
• The count and the wedding guest
• A municipal report

• NCID: BA82141722
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Garden City, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 338 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories