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•         This collection of 100 of O Henry’s finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America’s best best-loved short story writer
•         This collection of 100 of O Henry’s finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America’s best best-loved 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 concerns of ’the four million’ ordinary citizens who inhabited turn--of-the-century New York。They are marked by coincidence surprise endings as well as the compassion high humour that have made O Henry’s stories popular for the last century。 目录： The Gift of the Magi A Cosmopolite in a Cafe Between Rounds The Skylight Room A Service of Love The Coming-out of Maggie The Cop the Anthem Memoirs of a Yellow Dog The Love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein Mammon the Archer Springtime a la Carte From the Cabby’s Seat An Unfinished Story Sisters of the Golden Circle The Romance of a Busy Broker The Furnished Room The Brief Debut of Tildy Hearts Crosses Telemachus，Friend The Handbook of Hymen The Trimmed Lamp The Pendulum The Assessor of Success The Buyer from Cactus City The Badge of Policeman O’Roon Briekdust Row The Making of a New Yorker Vanity some Sables The Social Triangle The Lost Blend A Harlem Tragedy ‘The Guilty Party’ The Last Leaf The Count the Wedding Guest The Tale of a Tainted Tenner Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet The Hthat Riles the World The Exact Science of Matrimony Conscience in Art The Man Higher Up A Tempered Wind Hostages to Momus The Ethics of Pig Strictly Business The Day Resurgent The Fifth Wheel The Poet the Peasant The Thing’s the Play A Ramble in Aphasia A Municipal Report Compliments of the Season Proof of the Pudding Past One atRooney’s ‘The Rose of Dixie’ The Third Ingredient Thimble，Thimble Buried Treasure The Moment of Victory The Head-Hunter The Last of the Troubadours The Sleuths Witches’ Loaves Holding up a Train Ulysses the Dogman At Arms with Morpheus A Ghost of a Chance Jimmy Hayes Muriel The Door of Unrest The Duplicity of Hargreaves Let Me Feel Your Pulse Law Order Transformation of Martin Burney Roads of Destiny The Guardian of the Accolade The Enchanted Profile ‘Next to Reading Matter’ A Double-dyed Deceiver The Passing of Black Eagle A Retrieved Reformation The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss Two Renegades A Lickpenny Lover Dougherty’s Eye-opener ‘Little Speck in Garnered Fruit’ While the Auto Waits A Comedy in Rubber One ThousDollars The Shocks of Doom Nemesis the Candy Man The Memento The Hypotheses of Failure Calloway’s Code ‘Girl’ A Technical Error A Blackjack Bargainer Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches A Ruler of Men The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear The Marionettes The Dream