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Short Fiction

O. Henry

BOOK TYPE
Short fiction
READING TIME
About 74.6 hours
WORDS
894,604
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A collection of O. Henry short stories, ordered by date of publication.

Short fiction

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Lord Oakhurst’s Curse
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III: The Curse
  4. Bexar Scrip No. 2692
  5. Queries and Answers
  6. Aristocracy Versus Hash
  7. Fickle Fortune or How Gladys Hustled
  8. A Strange Story
  9. The Great French Detective, in Austin
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
  10. Tracked to Doom
  11. A Snapshot at the President
  12. Three Paragraphs
  13. A Lunar Episode
  14. The Sensitive Colonel Jay
  15. The Distraction of Grief
  16. A Sporting Interest
  17. Had a Use for It
  18. The Old Landmark
  19. Getting at the Facts
  20. Too Wise
  21. Answers to Inquiries
  22. Hush Money
  23. Relieved
  24. A Villainous Trick
  25. Book Reviews
  26. A Conditional Pardon
  27. Bill Nye
  28. A Guarded Secret
  29. A Universal Favorite
  30. Willing to Compromise
  31. Ridiculous
  32. Guessed Everything Else
  33. A Slight Mistake
  34. A Good Story Spoiled
  35. Revenge
  36. No Help for It
  37. “Not So Much a Tam Fool”
  38. A Guess-Proof Mystery Story
    1. Chapter I
    2. Chapter II
    3. Chapter III
    4. Chapter IV
    5. Chapter V
  39. An Inspiration
  40. Coming to Him
  41. His Pension
  42. The Winner
  43. Hungry Henry’s Ruse
  44. One Consolation
  45. An Unsuccessful Experiment
  46. Even Worse
  47. The Shock
  48. The Cynic
  49. Speaking of Big Winds
  50. An Original Idea
  51. Calculations
  52. A Valedictory
  53. Solemn Thoughts
  54. Explaining It
  55. Her Failing
  56. A Disagreement
  57. An Expensive Veracity
  58. Grounds for Uneasiness
  59. Recognition
  60. His Doubt
  61. A Cheering Thought
  62. What It Was
  63. Identified
  64. Red Conlin’s Eloquence
  65. Marvelous
  66. The Stranger’s Appeal
  67. The Colonel’s Romance
  68. A Narrow Escape
  69. A Years Supply
  70. Slightly Mixed
  71. Knew What Was Needed
  72. Some Ancient News Notes
  73. A Sure Method
  74. A Tragedy
  75. A Houston Romance
  76. Nothing New Under the Sun
  77. A Matter of Loyalty
  78. By Easy Stages
  79. Taking No Chances
  80. The Other Side of It
  81. The Bruised Reed
  82. Journalistically Impossible
  83. The Power of Reputation
  84. A Personal Insult
  85. Reconciliation
  86. Buying a Piano
  87. Too Late
  88. A New Microbe
  89. A Story for Men
  90. Just a Little Damp
  91. Her Mysterious Charm
  92. Why He Hesitated
  93. Convinced
  94. How It Started
  95. His Dilemma
  96. Something for Baby
  97. A Righteous Outburst
  98. A Green Hand
  99. A Fatal Error
  100. The Rake-Off
  101. The Telegram
  102. An Opportunity Declined
  103. The Confession of a Murderer
  104. A Startling Demonstration
  105. Leap Year Advice
  106. After Supper
  107. His Only Opportunity
  108. Correcting a Great Injustice
  109. Getting Acquainted
  110. City Perils
  111. Jack the Giant Killer
  112. No Time to Lose
  113. Paderewski’s Hair
  114. Binkley’s Practical School of Journalism
  115. The Apple
  116. A Pastel
  117. A Night Errant
  118. Board and Ancestors
  119. An X-Ray Fable
  120. The Sporting Editor on Culture
  121. A Question of Direction
  122. The Prisoner of Zembla
  123. Lucky Either Way
  124. The “Bad Man”
  125. Simmon’s Saturday Night
  126. The Wounded Veteran
  127. Her Ruse
  128. Why Conductors Are Morose
  129. Led Astray
  130. The Mirage on the Frio
  131. The Legend of San Jacinto
  132. In Mezzotint
  133. Whiskey Did It
  134. A Strange Case
  135. How Willie Saved Father
  136. Veriton Villa
  137. A Mystery of Many Centuries
  138. The Good Boy
  139. The Dissipated Jeweler
  140. Sufficient Provocation
  141. The Pint Flask
  142. An Unknown Romance
  143. How She Got in the Swim
  144. An Odd Character
  145. The Barber Talks
  146. The Sunday Excursionist
  147. Barbershop Adventure
  148. Somebody Lied
  149. The Lotus and the Cockleburrs
  150. The Proem
  151. “Fox-in-the-Morning”
  152. The Lotus and the Bottle
  153. Smith
  154. Caught
  155. Cupid’s Exile Number Two
  156. The Phonograph and the Graft
  157. Money Maze
  158. The Admiral
  159. The Flag Paramount
  160. The Shamrock and the Palm
  161. The Remnants of the Code
  162. Shoes
  163. Ships
  164. Masters of Arts
  165. Dicky
  166. Rouge Et Noir
  167. Two Recalls
  168. The Vitagraphoscope
  169. Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking
  170. Georgia’s Ruling
  171. Bulger’s Friend
  172. A Blackjack Bargainer
  173. The Duplicity of Hargraves
  174. The Passing of Black Eagle
  175. Cherchez La Femme
  176. Friends in San Rosario
  177. The Marionettes
  178. By Courier
  179. Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches
  180. An Afternoon Miracle
  181. A Call Loan
  182. The Struggle of the Outliers
  183. A Professional Secret
  184. Cupid à la Carte
  185. A Departmental Case
  186. Round the Circle
  187. The Cactus
  188. The Renaissance at Charleroi
  189. Hearts and Hands
  190. A Ghost of a Chance
  191. Art and the Bronco
  192. Hygeia at the Solito
  193. Sound and Fury
  194. Roads of Destiny
    1. The Left Branch
    2. The Right Branch
    3. The Main Road
  195. The Robe of Peace
  196. A Retrieved Reformation
  197. One Dollar’s Worth
  198. While the Auto Waits
  199. The Guardian of the Accolade
  200. October and June
  201. The Marquis and Miss Sally
  202. Out of Nazareth
  203. The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear
  204. The Whirligig of Life
  205. The Fourth in Salvador
  206. Jimmy Hayes and Muriel
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
  207. Tobin’s Palm
  208. The Lonesome Road
  209. Confessions of a Humorist
  210. At Arms with Morpheus
  211. The Princess and the Puma
  212. A Chaparral Christmas Gift
  213. The Sphinx Apple
  214. The Pimienta Pancakes
  215. The Social Triangle
  216. The Elusive Tenderloin
  217. A Chaparral Prince
  218. The Ferry of Unfulfilment
  219. The Pendulum
  220. The Hypotheses of Failure
  221. Transformation of Martin Burney
  222. A Little Local Colour
  223. A Newspaper Story
  224. A Madison Square Arabian Night
  225. The Champion of the Weather
  226. On Behalf of the Management
  227. The Enchanted Kiss
  228. The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
  229. After Twenty Years
  230. The Sparrows in Madison Square
  231. Lost on Dress Parade
  232. The Reformation of Calliope
  233. Witches’ Loaves
  234. New York by Camp Fire Light
  235. The Romance of a Busy Broker
  236. A Matter of Mean Elevation
  237. The Brief Debut of Tildy
  238. Holding Up a Train
  239. The Easter of the Soul
  240. Ulysses and the Dogman
  241. The Complete Life of John Hopkins
  242. The Caliph and the Cad
  243. The Door of Unrest
  244. The Emancipation of Billy
  245. A Harlem Tragedy
  246. Dougherty’s Eye-Opener
  247. The Rubber Plant’s Story
  248. The Gold That Glittered
  249. A Lickpenny Lover
  250. The Missing Chord
  251. A Dinner at ———
  252. One Thousand Dollars
  253. A Comedy in Rubber
  254. The Defeat of the City
  255. The Pride of the Cities
  256. The Greater Coney
  257. Transients in Arcadia
  258. The Lady Higher Up
  259. The Foreign Policy of Company 99
  260. Two Renegades
  261. A Tempered Wind
  262. The Roads We Take
  263. The Furnished Room
  264. A Philistine in Bohemia
  265. The Diamond of Kali
  266. A Little Talk About Mobs
  267. Suite Homes and Their Romance
  268. The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
  269. Makes the Whole World Kin
  270. The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein
  271. The Rathskeller and the Rose
  272. A Sacrifice Hit
  273. The Sleuths
  274. From the Cabby’s Seat
  275. The Theory and the Hound
  276. The Coming-Out of Maggie
  277. Squaring the Circle
  278. Hearts and Crosses
  279. The Ransom of Mack
  280. The Cop and the Anthem
  281. Christmas by Injunction
  282. The Green Door
  283. The Church with an Overshot-Wheel
  284. The Badge of Policeman O’Roon
  285. A Ramble in Aphasia
  286. The Making of a New Yorker
  287. A Service of Love
  288. Psyche and the Pskyscraper
  289. A Cosmopolite in a Café
  290. The Girl and the Habit
  291. Vanity and Some Sables
  292. The Unknown Quantity
  293. Babes in the Jungle
  294. The Song and the Sergeant
  295. Man About Town
  296. Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
  297. Mammon and the Archer
  298. The Detective Detector
  299. “Little Speck in Garnered Fruit”
  300. The Shocks of Doom
  301. Extradited from Bohemia
  302. The Red Roses of Tonia
  303. Springtime à la Carte
  304. Between Rounds
  305. Tommy’s Burglar
  306. The Marry Month of May
  307. The Girl and the Graft
  308. The Call of the Tame
  309. According to Their Lights
  310. Roses, Ruses and Romance
  311. The Voice of the City
  312. Hostages to Momus
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  313. Sisters of the Golden Circle
  314. The Dog and the Playlet
  315. An Adjustment of Nature
  316. A Midsummer Knight’s Dream
  317. The Lost Blend
  318. An Unfinished Story
  319. Nemesis and the Candy Man
  320. The City of Dreadful Night
  321. The Skylight Room
  322. The Assessor of Success
  323. From Each According to His Ability
  324. The Poet and the Peasant
  325. A Bird of Baghdad
  326. The Plutonian Fire
  327. “The Guilty Party”
  328. The Count and the Wedding Guest
  329. The Last Leaf
  330. Elsie in New York
  331. The Clarion Call
  332. The Tale of a Tainted Tenner
  333. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
  334. Blind Man’s Holiday
  335. Telemachus, Friend
  336. A Double-Dyed Deceiver
  337. The Gift of the Magi
  338. The Duel
  339. The Thing’s the Play
  340. The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball
  341. The Buyer from Cactus City
  342. The Harbinger
  343. The Day Resurgent
  344. The Fool-Killer
  345. The Handbook of Hymen
  346. Brickdust Row
  347. Sociology in Serge and Straw
  348. “Girl”
  349. A Ruler of Men
  350. The Trimmed Lamp
  351. The Higher Abdication
  352. Calloway’s Code
  353. The Country of Elusion
  354. The Ethics of Pig
  355. Compliments of the Season
  356. Seats of the Haughty
  357. The Purple Dress
  358. Past One at Rooney’s
  359. The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson
  360. The Man Higher Up
  361. Proof of the Pudding
  362. The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss
  363. The Caballero’s Way
  364. The Ransom of Red Chief
  365. The Fifth Wheel
  366. The World and the Door
  367. Phoebe
  368. “Next to Reading Matter”
  369. The Day We Celebrate
  370. The Octopus Marooned
  371. Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
  372. Modern Rural Sports
  373. The Chair of Philanthromathematics
  374. The Hand That Riles the World
  375. The Exact Science of Matrimony
  376. A Midsummer Masquerade
  377. Shearing the Wolf
  378. Innocents of Broadway
  379. Conscience in Art
  380. The Memento
  381. The Enchanted Profile
  382. A Night in New Arabia
  383. The Headhunter
  384. The Moment of Victory
  385. “The Rose of Dixie”
  386. Buried Treasure
  387. The Last of the Troubadours
  388. Strictly Business
  389. “What You Want”
  390. The Hiding of Black Bill
  391. Schools and Schools
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
  392. The Discounters of Money
  393. He Also Serves
  394. The Third Ingredient
  395. Thimble, Thimble
  396. Helping the Other Fellow
    1. II
    2. III
    3. IV
  397. Supply and Demand
  398. To Him Who Waits
  399. The Higher Pragmatism
    1. I
    2. II
  400. Bestseller
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  401. No Story
  402. A Poor Rule
  403. Rus in Urbe
  404. The Venturers
  405. A Municipal Report
  406. A Christmas Pi
  407. A Technical Error
  408. Let Me Feel Your Pulse
  409. The Friendly Call
  410. The Snow Man
  411. Law and Order
  412. An Unfinished Christmas Story
  413. The Unprofitable Servant
  414. A Fog in Santone
  415. The Dream
  416. Endnotes
  417. Colophon
  418. Uncopyright

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