100 Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

100 Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

<p><div><p><strong>With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.</strong></p></div></p><br /><p><div><p>This selection of a hundred of O. Henry’s succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.</p></div></p><br /><p><div><p>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.</p></div></p><br /><p><div><p>These stories are famed for their ‘trick endings’ or ‘twists in the tail’: repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry’s cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso’s command of language and allusion.</p></div></p><br /><p><div><p>This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions.</p></div></p>