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Collected stories [of] O. Henry / edited by Paul J. Horowitz.

Author: Henry, O., 1862-1910.

Imprint:New York : Gramercy Books : Avenel Books : Distributed by Outlet Book Company, Inc., a Random House Company, c1986, 1993.

Description:xvii, 972 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:Tictocq -- Tracked to doom -- A snapshot at the president -- Aristocracy versus hash -- The prisioner of zembla -- A strange story -- Bexar scrip no. 2692 -- A lunar episode -- An apology -- Nothing new under the sun -- A new microbe -- Jack the giant killer -- Paderewski's hair -- Binkley's pratical school of journalism -- Simmon's saturday night -- The legend of san jacinto -- In mezzotint -- How willie saved father -- A strange case -- Vereton villa -- The dissipated jeweler -- An unknown romance -- The pint flask -- How she got in the swim -- An odd character -- The barber talks -- Barber shop adventure -- Last fall of the alamo -- The miracle of lava canyon -- Whistling dick's christmas stocking -- Georgia's ruling -- The proem -- Fox in the morning -- Smith -- Caught -- Two rascale -- A blackjack bargainer -- Bulger's friend -- The flag paramount -- The lotos and the bottle -- The passing of black eagle -- Friends in santa rosario -- The marionettes -- His courier.

Note:Madame bo peep of the ranches -- An afternoon miracle -- The struggle of the outliers -- A professional ecret -- The renaissance at charleroi -- A departmental cse -- The guardian of the scutcheon -- Round the circle -- The cactus -- Hearts and hands -- A ghost of a chance -- Art and the bronco -- Hygeia at the solito -- The phonograph and the graft -- Cherchez la femme -- The shamrock and the palm -- Sound and fury -- Roads to destiny -- The robe of peace -- One dollar's worth -- A retrieved reform -- While the auto waits -- October and june -- The marquis and miss sally -- Out of nazareth -- The atavism of john tom little bear -- A call loan -- Jimmy hayes and muriel -- The whirligig of life -- The fourth in salvador -- Tobin's palm -- Masters of arts -- The lonesome road -- At arms with morpheus -- Confessions of a humorist -- The lotus and the cockleburrs -- The point of the story -- The princess and the puma -- A chaparral christmas story -- The pimienta pancakes -- The sphinx apple -- The elusive tenderloin -- The social tirangle -- A chaparral prince -- The ferry of unfulfillment -- Transformation of martin burney -- A little local color -- A newspaper story - A Madison square arabian night -- The champion of the weather -- The enchanted kiss -- On behalf of the management -- The adventures of shamrock jolnes -- After twenty years

Note:The sparrows in madison square -- Lost on dress parade -- Witches' loaves -- New York by camp fire light -- The romance of busy broker -- A matter of mean elevation -- The brief debut of tidy -- Holding up the train -- The easter of the soul -- Ulysses and the dogman -- The complete life of John Hopkins -- The caliph and the cad -- The door of unrest -- The emancipation of Billy -- A Harlem tragedy -- Dinner for two -- The rubber plant's story -- The gold that glittered -- A lickpenny lover -- A dinner at -- The missing chord -- One thousand dollars -- Katy of the flagmore flats -- A comedy in rubber -- The defaet of the story -- The pride of the cities -- The greater coney -- Transients in arcadia -- The lady higher up -- Te foreign policy of company 99 -- A tempered wind -- Two renegades -- The roads we take -- The furnished room -- A philistine in bohemia -- The diamond of kali -- A little talk about mobs -- Suite homes and their romance -- The caliph cupid and the clock -- Makes the whole world kin -- The love philtre of ikey schoenstein -- The rathskiller and the rose -- A sacrifice hit -- The sleuths -- From the cabby's seat -- The comming out of maggie -- Squaring the circle -- Hearts and crosses -- The cop and the anthem -- Christmas by injunction -- The green door -- The church with an overshot wheel -- The badge of policeman o'roon -- Raggles of the making of a New Yorker.

Note:A service of love -- Psyche and the pskyscraper -- A comopolite in a cafe -- The girl and the habit -- A ramble in aphasia -- The unknown quantity -- Babes in the jungle -- Man about town -- Memoirs of a yellow dog -- Mammon and the archer -- The detective detector -- Springtime a la carte -- Extradited from Bohemia -- The shocks of doom -- Between rounds -- Tommy's burgular -- The marry month of May -- The girl and the graft -- The call of the tame -- According to our lights -- Roses ruses and romance -- The voice of the city -- Hostages to momus -- Sisters of the golden circle -- The dog and the playlet -- An adjustment of nature -- The lost blend -- An unfinished story -- The city of dreadful night -- The skylight room -- The little white man of morley -- The poet and the peasant -- The bird of Bagdad -- The plutonian fire -- The guilty party -- The count and the wedding guest -- The last leaf -- Elise in New York -- The clarion call -- The purple dress -- The Tale of a tainted tenner -- Two Thanksgiving day gentlemen -- Blind man's holiday -- The double dyed deceiver -- Telemachus friend -- Gifts of the magi -- The duel -- The thing's the play -- The rubaiyat of a scotch highball -- The buyer from cactus city -- The harbinger -- The day resurgent -- Fool kiler -- Handbook of hymen.

Note:Brickdust row -- Sociology in serge and straw -- Girl -- The higher abdication -- A ruler of men -- The trimmed lamp -- Calloway's code -- Ethics of a pig -- Compliments of the season -- The ransonm of ed chief -- The caballero's way -- The fifth wheel -- The world and the door -- Phoeb -- The octopus marooned -- Jeff Peters as a personal magnet -- Modern rural sports -- The chair of the philanthromathematics -- The exact science of matrimony -- Shearing the wolf -- Conscience in art -- The man higher up -- A night in new arabia -- The last of the troubadours -- Buried treasure -- Strictly business -- The hiding of black bill -- The third ingredient -- A poor rule -- The venturers.

Note:An illustrated collection of more than 200 stories arranged in chronological order of publication.

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