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Selected Stories Paperback - 1993

by O. Henry; Introduction by Guy Davenport

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Eighty short stories by a master of the genre

O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories--about con men and tricksters and "innocent" deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence--have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry's mastery of speech and place, and highlight his appreciation of life's quirks.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • Title Selected Stories
  • Author O. Henry; Introduction by Guy Davenport
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, New York
  • Publication date 1993-07-01
  • ISBN 9780140186888 / 0140186883
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.66 x 5.54 x 1.22 in (19.46 x 14.07 x 3.10 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92039604
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) published all of his work--a novel and some 300 short stories--under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature, local tone, narrative agility, and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle's drugstore as a youth, becoming a certified pharmacist. Like many Southerners after the Civil War, he sought his fortune in the West, holding various jobs (newspaper work, clerking in a land office, a teller at an Austin bank). Charged with embezzlement in 1894, he fled to Honduras, returning in 1897 to be with his ill and dying wife. His conviction was caused more by his eluding trial than by the conflicting evidence of theft. In the Ohio State Penitentiary (1898-1901), he began to write the stories that made him famous. He moved to New York, remarried, and kept his identity a secret from all but a few friends. He is buried in Asheville, North Carolina. He is universally honored for his mastery of the short story and for his humane spirit.

Guy Davenport, a critic and writer of fiction, is best known for two books of essays, The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He has published seven collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. Now retired, he was a professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990. He is also a painter and illustrator.

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