Henry is noted for his sentimental tales dealing with the lives of everyday people. A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. Henry brings together a motley cast of characters from all walks of life stage actors, blackmailers, soldiers, waitresses, and average. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Chorus girls are inseparable from peroxide, panhards and pittsburg. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humor, grim or ironic, and often had surprise endings, a device that became identified with his name. Strictly business more stories of the four million. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. All shows walk back to new york on tan oxford and railroad ties. William sydney porter september 11, 1862 june 5, 1910, better known by his pen name o. Here 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. Help us introduce it to others by writing an introduction for it. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Index of the project gutenberg works of o heart of the west the voice of the city strictly business. Henry s tales, including the title story about actors and the theater. Buy strictly business by o henry online at alibris. Youve been touched with and by actors, and you read the newspaper criticisms and the jokes in the weeklies about the rialto and the chorus girls and the longhaired tragedians. Publication date 1899 topics cdak collection digitallibraryindia.
Accused of embezzlement of bank funds, he fled to honduras in 1896, but returned when he heard of his wifes illness. His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. More stories of the four million, is a collection of twenty. Delovye lyudi is a 1962 soviet blackandwhite comedy film directed by leonid gaidai, based on three short stories by o. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Strictly business more stories of the four million by o. Henry s voice, artifacts, a musical score, and the porter family bible. He contributed stories to magazines from around 1887 and started his own weekly, the rolling stone, in 1894.
It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. For fans of short fiction, it doesnt get much better than this. Henry went to texas in 1882 and worked at various jobs including a clerk and a teller at the first national bank in austin. Henry is the pen name of american writer william sydney porter 18621910. The romance of a busy broker is about a man who has a hard time separating his work life from his personal one. Over the next three years he produced the voice of the city 1908, the gentle grafter 1908, roads of destiny 1909, options 1909, strictly business 1910. Henry this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Spellbinding reading for any fan of the short story, strictly business presents 23 of o. Henry brings together a motley cast of characters from all walks of lifestage actors, blackmailers, soldiers, waitresses, and average citizensand adds in an array of unexpected plot twists and other surprises. More stories of the four million for your kindle, tablet, ipad, pc or mobile. Henry on himself, life, and other things pdf, new york times, april 4, 1909, p. Henry free books for your kindle, tablet, ipad, pc or mobile. Porters 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization, isbn 9781633551763 buy the strictly business.
Download epub download mobi download pdf buy at amazon. Free books of north american literature in english, pdf, epub, mobi, fb2, azw3, kindle. Therefore let us have the moral first and be done with it. I found his works are simple yet meaningful and somehow funny. More stories of the four million 1910 fan of this book. The things the play the things the play being acquainted with a newspaper reporter who had a couple of free passes, i got to see the performance a few nights ago at one of the popular vaudeville houses. Henry s stories feature everyday new yorkers going about their lives and reveal his affection for the ordinary man. The project gutenberg ebook, strictly business, by o. More stories of the four million, is a collection of twentythree short stories that was first published in 1908. This lesson provides a summary and analysis of this short story by o. Henry is available at in several formats for your ereader. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. This collection of 33 stories from 1908 chronicles the place with which o. Its easy to link to paragraphs in the full text archive.
Read strictly business by author o henry, free, online. With a new introduction by professor cedric watts, m. Henry is well known as an author whose works are detail for its twist and plot. Henry is often credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. Henry also available along with many others by classic and contemporary authors.
Henrys ebooks free in pdf, epub and kindle formats. Use any internetconnected device to access these fun. This collection of short stories from american author o. Henry s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular shortstory writer. Henry, american shortstory writer whose tales romanticized the commonplacein particular the life of ordinary people in new york city. William sidney porter was born 11 september, 1862 in greensboro, north. Henry s lifetime, many being first editions and bound in distinguished sets. Sometimes it is not possible to find the cover corresponding to the book whose edition is published. The roads we take, makes the whole world kin, and the ransom of red chief the films title is borrowed from the book of short stories by o. Henry is full of variety of social life happened in our daily life. This useful literature study guide chapter explores several short stories that appear in o. Strictly business 1910, collection of 23 short stories. O henry this collection of short stories from american author o.
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