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101 stories / O. Henry ; Ben Yagoda, editor.

by Henry, O., 1862-1910, author.

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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2021]

City and town life -- Fiction.

Short stories, American.

9781598536904 (hardback)

1598536907 (hardback)

Library of America ; 345.

xii, 828 pages ; 21 cm.

Bexar scrip no. 2692 -- Three paragraphs -- A personal insult -- When the train comes in: outline sketches at the Grand Central Depot -- Why he hesitated -- Something for baby -- Too wise -- The return of the songster -- Book reviews -- Guessed everything else -- In mezzotint -- The barber talks -- The ghost that came to Old Angles -- Pursuing ideals -- The miracle of Lava Canyon -- Whistling Dick's Christmas stocking -- A retrieved reformation -- Confessions of a humorist -- A ramble in aphasia -- Blind man's holiday -- The ransom of Red Chief -- A municipal report -- A fog in Santone: a meteorological sketch -- Friends in San Rosario -- Round the circle -- Hearts and hands -- The lonesome road -- The pimienta pancakes -- Holding up a train -- The ransom of Mack -- Christmas by injunction -- The handbook of Hymen -- The caballero's way -- The moment of victory -- Buried treasure -- The last of the troubadours -- The hiding of Black Bill -- A technical error -- The friendly call -- Shoes -- Ships -- A ruler of men -- "Next to reading matter" -- The atavism of John Tom Little Bear -- Conscience in art -- The man higher up -- The social triangle -- A little local colour -- A newspaper story -- After twenty years -- Lost on dress parade -- The complete life of John Hopkins -- The rubber plant's story -- A dinner at ____*: the adventures of an author with his own hero -- A comedy in rubber -- The pride of the cities -- The foreign policy of Company 99 -- The furnished room -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- The rathskeller and the rose -- A sacrifice hit -- The coming-out of Maggie -- The cop and the anthem -- The green door -- The badge of Policeman O'Roon -- The making of a New Yorker -- Psyche and the pskyscraper -- Man about town -- Springtime a la carte -- Extradited from Bohemia -- Tommy's burglar -- The girl and the graft -- Sisters of the golden circle -- An adjustment of nature -- A midsummer knight's dream -- An unfinished story -- The city of dreadful night -- The skylight room -- The poet and the peasant -- The plutonian fire -- The last leaf -- Elsie in New York -- The purple dress -- The gift of the Magi -- The duel -- The rubaiyat of a Scotch highball -- The buyer from Cactus City -- The harbinger -- Brickdust row -- "Girl" -- The trimmed lamp -- Proof of the pudding -- The memento -- A night in New Arabia -- Strictly business -- The third ingredient -- The higher pragmatism -- No story -- Let me feel your pulse -- The snow man -- The dream.

"Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter--better known as O. Henry--was one of the world's great storytellers. A master of cunning plots and a gifted humorist, he is best known today for his beloved tale "The Gift of the Magi." But O. Henry's palette of moods and methods was as expansive as his exuberant imagination. This Library of America volume offers a fresh look at the full range of his literary genius. Here are 101 stories, including such favorites as "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last of the Troubadours," and "The Cop and the Anthem," alongside lesser-known and previously uncollected stories, including three early tales published here for the first time. With full annotation and a newly researched chronology of Porter's life and career, this is a definitive edition for modern readers of a major American writer."--Publisher's description.

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