| ||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.
This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.
Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.
These stories are famed for their ‘trick endings’ or ‘twists in the tail’: repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry’s cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso’s command of language and allusion.
This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Even if many stories reflect the 1910's America the very fact that it's about human values, relations and "Surprises", it's even fresh in 2000's. Many stories, which we heard as short quickies are here by this great author. This a must to have for those who want some thing to tingle there heart, emotions and head.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book on impulse and it has only dissapointed me in one respect. I skipped the introduction and jumped straight to the stories. I thought I was being clever when I compared it to Runyon's stories of 4 decades later. When I went back to read the introduction, the comparison had made there already. In all other respects I cannot fault the book.
The stories are very short. They are generally gentle, charming stories by someone who obviously had a great sympathy for the people he was describing.
I highly recommend it to anyone.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some short story collections read like literary off cuts. Quickies run out to order by novellists are not the same as well crafted miniature works designed to fill their frames. All would-be short story writers should be made to read these tales and learn from the great American master.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
my mistake
This came up while looking at French dual text books, and it's not and I should have read thoroughly. That will teach me.
Published 8 months ago by Mr. Bernard W. Farrell
Learning The Art Of Short Story Writing With O. Henry As A Companion
I am sbout to start a Creative Writing degree in September in which the first year will cover the art of short story writing, so, on the recommendation of a friend, I bought this... Read more
Published 22 months ago by TJ
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Fiction > Classics
- Books > Fiction > Contemporary Fiction
- Books > Fiction > Short Stories
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
