| Description |
x pages, 1 leaf, 338 pages ; 19 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
The Modern library of the world's best books |
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Modern library of the world's best books.
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| Contents |
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 a 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 |
| Summary |
38 stories |
| Notes |
O. Henry is the pseudonym of William Sydney Potter |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Cartmell, Van H. (Van Henry), 1896-1966, compiler
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Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971, compiler
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| LC no. |
45035106 |
| ISBN |
0394604237 |
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