Kings and cabbage. Noble crook. The voice of the big city. Stories: Henry O.

The famous American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) is the author of popular short stories, a master of original plot turns, colorful dialogues and stunning interchanges. The writer’s creative heritage is ten collections, or over six hundred short stories, which are something like a humorous encyclopedia of American life in the early twentieth century.
However, O. Henry sketches answer the best possible and what we observe in modern life. Many phrases from his short stories have long become winged – for example, “Bolivar will not take two” or “in ten minutes we will have time to run to the Canadian border.” Unusually entertaining and witty, the stories of O. Henry are still a living classic …
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Author
O. Henry
Translator
Bespalova L. G., Suritz Elena Aleksandrovna, Korotkova Ekaterina Vasilievna
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Small Library of Masterpieces