USA
O. Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, original name William Sidney Porter, American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic, and often had surprise endings, a device that became identified with his name and cost him critical favour when its vogue had passed.
The story of an wholly unphilosophical girl and her two suitors.
A country boy arrives in the city - but is mistaken for a confidence trickster.
* Story contains bad language
The story of a suitor, a riddle and an ever-helpful restaurenteur.
A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
A man rich enough to despise everything that money can buy goes out and tries to want something that he can't pay for.
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