O. Henry: 101 stories

Early sketches, stories, and reportage. Bexar Scrip No. 2692 ; Three paragraphs ; A personal insult ; When the train comes in: outline sketches at the Grand Central Depot ; Why he hesitated ; Something for baby ; Too wise ; The return of the songster ; Book reviews ; Guessed everything else ; In Mezzotint ; The barber talks ; The ghost that came to Old Angles ; Pursuing ideas ; The miracle of Lava Canyon

Country. Whistling Dick's Christmas stocking ; A retrieved reformation ; Confessions of a humorist ; A ramble in aphasia ; Blind man's holiday ; The ransom of Red Chief ; A municipal report

West. A Fog in Santone: a meteorological sketch ; Friends in San Rosario ; Round the circle ; Hearts and hands ; The lonesome road ; The Pimienta pancakes ; Holding up a train ; The ransom of Mack ; Christmas by injunction ; The handbook of Hymen ; The caballero's way ; The moment of victory ; Buried treasure ; The last of the troubadours ; The hiding of Black Bill ; A technical error ; The friendly call

Tropics. Shoes ; Ships ; A ruler of men ; "Next to reading matter"

The gentle grafter. The atavism of John Tom Little Bear ; Conscience of art ; The man higher up

New York. The social triangle ; A little local colour ; A newspaper story ; After twenty years ; Lost on dress parade ; The complete life of John Hopkins ; The rubber plant's story ; A dinner at _____*: the adventures of an author with his own hero ; A comedy in rubber ; The pride of the cities ; The foreign policy of Company 99 ; The furnished room ; The love-philtre of Ikey Shoenstein ; The rathskeller and the rose ; A sacrifice hit ; The coming-out of magic ; The cop and the anthem ; The green door ; The badge of policeman O'Roon ; The making of a New Yorker ; Psyche and the pskyscraper ; Man about town ; Springtime a la carte ; Extradited from bohemia ; Tommy's burglar ; The girl and the graft ; Sisters of the golden circle ; An adjustment of nature ; A midsummer knight's dream ; An unfinished story ; The city of dreadful night ; The skylight room ; The poet and the peasant ; The plutonian fire ; The last leaf ; Elsie in New York ; The purple dress ; The gift of the magi ; The duel ; The rubaiyat of a scotch highball ; The buyer from Cactus City ; The harbinger ; Brickdust Row ; "Girl" ; The trimmed lamp ; Proof of the pudding ; The memento ; A night in New Arabia ; Strictly business ; The third ingredient ; The higher pragmatism ; No story

Final stories. Let me feel your pulse ; The snow man ; The dream

Chronology

Note on the texts

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