100 selected stories / O. Henry

This collection of 100 of O Henrys finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of Americas best and bestloved short story writers The variety of the stories is amazing O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of the four million ordinary citizens who inhabited turnofthecentury New York. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humour that have made O Henrys stories popular for the last century.