The Voice of the City

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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Nineteen stories of Texas ranches, cowboys and border towns, drawn from the years O. Henry spent on the frontier. Includes The Caballero's Way, the tale that introduced the Cisco Kid.

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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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