{"product_id":"100-selected-stories-o-henry","title":"100 Selected Stories; O. Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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. 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