Heart of the West

Twenty five New York stories, including the Christmas one about the watch and the hair. O. Henry lands a whole romance in six pages and still surprises you at the end.

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Linked stories set in Anchuria, an invented Central American republic of revolutions, runaway presidents and bananas. O. Henry's first book, and the one that coined the phrase banana republic.

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Twenty five more stories of New York shopgirls, clerks and dreamers, written as a follow-up to The Four Million. Includes A Lickpenny Lover and The Complete Life of John Hopkins.

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Stories of working New Yorkers, opening with two shopgirls who choose very different roads to happiness. This is also the book that holds The Last Leaf.

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A late collection that moves from Texas to Central America to Manhattan. It includes The Ransom of Red Chief, the kidnapping story where the boy is far more trouble than the kidnappers.

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