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“The Plutonian Fire” | 2,350 words. A short story writer who had some fiction published in the South struggles to get an editor’s approval in New York. This is the first story in the preview of The Selected Stories of O. Henry. “While the Auto Waits” | 1,930 words. A young man strikes up a conversation with a young woman on a park bench.
6. ‘ The Sleuths ’. This 1911 story is a more light-hearted tale from O. Henry, and a pastiche of the popular Sherlock Holmes stories. A man searching for his missing sister in New York realises the official police detective can’t help him. Only one man can: the famous private consulting detective Shamrock Jolnes.
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The stories of the US short-story writer O. Henry, real name William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), are characterised by their irony and by their surprise endings, which became something of a signature of a good O. Henry short story. The 1907 story ‘The Last Leaf’ is among his most famous:…
A short summary of O. Henry's The Last Leaf. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Last Leaf.
A Summary and Analysis of O. Henry’s ‘The Gift of the Magi’. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Gift of the Magi’ is a short story by the US short-story writer O. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His stories are characterised by their irony, their chatty narrative style, their occasional ...
Jun 28, 2021 · Ben Yagoda, the editor of the new Library of America volume “O. Henry: 101 Stories,” says that Porter published hundreds of short stories, along with ephemera that appeared in The Rolling ...
William Sidney Porter. Pen Name: O. Henry. Born: Sep 11, 1862. Died: Jun 5, 1910 (age 47) O. Henry (1862 - 1910) was an American short story author whose real name was William Sydney Porter. Henry's rich canon of work reflected his wide-range of experiences and is distinctive for its witticism, clever wordplay, and unexpected twist endings.
