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The Works Of O.Henry

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter / Olivier Henry / Oliver Henry) was an American short story writer.

  • Born   : September 11, 1862
  • Died    : June 5, 1910
  • Nationality : American

Works By O.Henry


Short Story / Short Fiction by  O. Henry

A Harlem Tragedy
A Madison Square Arabian Night
A Midsummer Knight's Dream
A Service Of Love
According To Their LightsA Cosmopolite In A Café
After Twenty Years
An Adjustment Of Nature
An Unfinished Story
Between Rounds
Brickdust Row
By Courier
Elsie In New York
From The Cabby's Seat
Lost On Dress Parade
Mammon And The Archer
Man About Town
Memoirs Of A Yellow Dog
Sisters Of The Golden Circle
Springtime à la Carte
The Assessor Of Success
The Badge Of Policeman O'roon
The Brief Début Of Tildy
The Buyer From Cactus City
The Caliph, Cupid And The Clock
The Coming-Out Of Maggie
The Cop And The Anthem
The Count And The Wedding Guest
The Country Of Elusion
The Ferry Of Unfulfilment
The Foreign Policy Of Company 99
The Furnished Room
The Gift Of The Magi
The Green Door
"The Guilty Party" — An East Side Tragedy
The Last Leaf
The Lost Blend
The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein
The Making Of A New Yorker
The Pendulum
The Purple Dress
The Romance Of A Busy Broker
The Rubaiyat Of A Scotch Highball
The Skylight Room
The Social Triangle
The Tale Of A Tainted Tenner
The Trimmed Lamp
Tobin's Palm
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
Vanity And Some Sables

Heart of the West (1907), collection of 19 short stories:
  1. Hearts and Crosses
  2. The Ransom of Mack
  3. Telemachus, Friend
  4. The Handbook of Hymen
  5. The Pimienta Pancakes
  6. Seats of the Haughty
  7. Hygeia at the Solito
  8. An Afternoon Miracle
  9. The Higher Abdication
  10. Cupid à la Carte
  11. The Caballero's Way
  12. The Sphinx Apple
  13. The Missing Chord
  14. A Call Loan
  15. The Princess and the Puma
  16. The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson
  17. Christmas by Injunction
  18. A Chaparral Prince
  19. The Reformation of Calliope



The Gentle Grafter (1908), collection of 14 short stories:
"The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Chair of Philanthromathematics", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", "A Midsummer Masquerade", "Shearing the Wolf", "Innocents of Broadway", "Conscience in Art", "The Man Higher Up", "Tempered Wind", "Hostages to Momus", "The Ethics of Pig"

The Voice of the City (1908), collection of 25 short stories:
  1. The Voice of the City
  2. The Complete Life of John Hopkins
  3. A Lickpenny Lover
  4. Dougherty's Eye-opener
  5. Little Speck in Garnered Fruit
  6. The Harbinger
  7. While the Auto Waits
  8. A Comedy in Rubber
  9. One Thousand Dollars
  10. The Defeat of the City
  11. The Shocks of Doom
  12. The Plutonian Fire
  13. Nemesis and the Candy Man
  14. Squaring the Circle
  15. Roses, Ruses and Romance
  16. The City of Dreadful Night
  17. The Easter of the Soul
  18. The Fool-killer
  19. Transients in Arcadia
  20. The Rathskeller and the Rose
  21. The Clarion Call
  22. Extradited from Bohemia
  23. A Philistine in Bohemia
  24. From Each According to His Ability
  25. The Memento

Roads of Destiny (1909), collection of 22 short stories:
  1. "Roads of Destiny", "The Guardian of the Accolade", "The Discounters of Money", "The Enchanted Profile", "Next to Reading Matter", "Art and the Bronco", "Phoebe", "A Double-dyed Deceiver", "The Passing of Black Eagle", "A Retrieved Reformation", "Cherchez la Femme", "Friends in San Rosario", "The Fourth in Salvador", "The Emancipation of Billy", "The Enchanted Kiss", "A Departmental Case", "The Renaissance at Charleroi", "On Behalf of the Management", "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking", "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss", "Two Renegades", "The Lonesome Road"

Options (1909), collection of 16 short stories:
  1. "'The Rose of Dixie'", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools", "Thimble, Thimble", "Supply and Demand", "Buried Treasure", "To Him Who Waits", "He Also Serves", "The Moment of Victory", "The Head-hunter", "No Story", "The Higher Pragmatism", "Best-seller", "Rus in Urbe", "A Poor Rule"
The Two Women (1910), collection of 2 short stories:
"A Fog in Santone", "Blind Man's Holiday"

  1. Strictly Business (1910), collection of 23 short stories:
"Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes in the Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel", "The Poet and the Peasant", "The Robe of Peace", "The Girl and the Graft", "The Call of the Tame", "The Unknown Quantity", "The Thing's the Play", "A Ramble in Aphasia", "A Municipal Report", "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia", "The Girl and the Habit", "Proof of the Pudding", "Past One at Rooney's", "The Venturers", "The Duel", "'What You Want'"


Whirligigs (1910)

Collection of 24 short stories.

  1. The World and the Door
  2. The Theory and the Hound
  3. The Hypotheses of Failure
  4. Calloway's Code
  5. A Matter of Mean Elevation
  6. Girl
  7. Sociology in Serge and Straw
  8. The Ransom of Red Chief
  9. The Marry Month of May
  10. A Technical Error
  11. Suite Homes and Their Romance
  12. The Whirligig of Life
  13. A Sacrifice Hit
  14. The Roads We Take
  15. A Blackjack Bargainer, 
  16. The Song and the Sergeant
  17. One Dollar's Worth
  18. A Newspaper Story
  19. Tommy's Burglar
  20. A Chaparral Christmas Gift
  21. A Little Local Colour
  22. Georgia's Ruling
  23. Blind Man's Holiday
  24. Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches
  25. Sixes and Sevens (1911)
  26. Collection of 25 short stories.
  27. The Last of the Troubadours
  28. The Sleuths
  29. Witches' Loaves
  30. The Pride of the Cities
  31. Holding Up a Train
  32. Ulysses and the Dogman
  33. The Champion of the Weather
  34. Makes the Whole World Kin
  35. At Arms with Morpheus
  36. A Ghost of a Chance
  37. Jimmy Hayes and Muriel
  38. The Door of Unrest
  39. The Duplicity of Hargraves
  40. Let Me Feel Your Pulse
  41. October and June
  42. The Church with an Overshot-Wheel
  43. New York by Camp Fire Light
  44. The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
  45. The Lady Higher Up
  46. The Greater Coney
  47. Law and Order
  48. Transformation of Martin Burney
  49. The Caliph and the Cad
  50. The Diamond of Kali
  51. The Day We Celebrate


Rolling Stones (1912), collection of 23 short stories: 
  1. "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear", "Helping the Other Fellow", "The Marionettes", "The Marquis and Miss Sally", "A Fog in Santone", "The Friendly Call", "A Dinner at ———", "Sound and Fury" (1903, "Tictocq", "Tracked to Doom", "A Snapshot at the President", "An Unfinished Christmas Story", "The Unprofitable Servant", "Aristocracy Versus Hash", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "A Strange Story", "Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled", "An Apology", "Lord Oakhurst's Curse", "Bexar Scrip No. 2692.", "Queries and Answers"
12 poems:
"The Pewee", "Nothing to say", "The Murderer"
Some Postscripts: "Two Portraits", "A Contribution", "The Old Farm", "Vanity", "The Lullaby Boy", "Chanson de Bohême", "Hard to Forget", "Drop a Tear in This Slot", "Tamales"
letters: "Some Letters"

Waifs and Strays (1917), collection of 12 short stories:
"The Red Roses of Tonia", "Round The Circle", "The Rubber Plant's Story", "Out of Nazareth", "Confessions of a Humorist", "The Sparrows in Madison Square", "Hearts and Hands", "The Cactus", "The Detective Detector", "The Dog and the Playlet", "A Little Talk About Mobs", "The Snow Man"
O. Henryana (1920), collection of 7 short stories:
"The Crucible", "A Lunar Episode", "Three Paragraphs", "Bulger's Friend", "A Professional Secret", "The Elusive Tenderloin", "The Struggle of the Outliers"

Postscripts (1923), collection of 103 short stories, 26 poems and 4 articles:
"The Sensitive Colonel Jay", "Taking No Chances", "A Matter of Loyalty", "The Other Side of It", "Journalistically Impossible", "The Power of Reputation", "The Distraction of Grief", "A Sporting Interest", "Had A Use for It", "The Old Landmark", "A Personal Insult", "Toddlekins" (poem), "Reconciliation", "Buying a Piano", "Too Late", "Nothing to say" (poem), "'Goin Home fur Christmas'" (poem), "Just a Little Damp", "Her Mysterious Charm", "Convinced", "His Dilemma", "Something for Baby" (poem), "Some Day", "A Green Hand", "A Righteous Outburst", "Getting at the Facts", "Just for a Change" (poem), "Too Wise", "A Fatal Error", "Prompt" (poem), "An Opportunity Declined", "Correcting a Great Injustice", "A Startling Demonstration", "Leap Year Advice" (article), "After Supper", "His Only Opportunity", "Getting Acquainted", "Answers to Inquiries" (article), "City Peril", "Hush Money", "Relieved", "No Time to Lose", "A Villainous Trick", "A Forced March" (poem), "Book Review" (article), "A Conditional Pardon", "Inconsistency" (poem), "Bill Nye", "To a Portrait" (poem), "A Guarded Secret", "A Pastel", "Jim" (poem), "Board and Ancestors", "An X-Ray Fable", "A Universal Favorite", "Spring" (poem), "The Sporting Editor on Culture", "A Question of Direction", "The Old Farm" (poem), "Willing to Compromise", "Ridiculous", "Guessed Everything Else", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "Lucky Either Way", "The Bad Man", "Slight Mistake", "Delayed", "A Good Story Spoiled", "Revenge", "No Help for It", "Riley's Luck" (poem), "Not So Much a Tam Fool", "A Guess-Proof Mystery Story", "Futility" (poem), "Wounded Veteran", "Her Ruse", "Why Conductors Are Morose", "The Pewee" (poem), "'Only to Lie-'" (poem), "The Sunday Excursionist", "Decoration Day", "Charge of the White Brigade" (poem), "An Inspiration", "Coming To Him", "His Pension", "Winner", "Hungry Henry's Ruse", "A Proof Of Love" (poem), "One Consolation", "An Unsuccessful Experiment", "Superlatrives" (poem), "By Easy Stages", "Even Worse", "The Shock", "The Cynic", "Speaking of Big Winds", "An Original Idea", "Calculations", "A Valedictory", "Solemn Thoughts", "Explaining It", "Her Failing", "A Disagreement", "An E for a Knee" (poem), "The Unconquerable" (poem), "An Expensive Veracity", "Grounds for Uneasiness", "It Covers Errors" (poem), "Recognition", "His Doubt", "A Cheering Thought", "What It Was", "Vanity" (poem), "Identified", "The Apple", "How It Started", "How Red Conlin Told the Widow", "Why He Hesitated", "Turkish Questions" (poem), "Somebody Lied", "Marvelous", "The Confession of a Murderer", "Get Off the Earth" (poem), "The Stranger's Appeal", "The Good Boy", "The Colonel's Romance", "A Narrow Escape", "A Year's Supply", "Eugene Field" (poem), "Slightly Mixed", "Knew What Was Needed", "Some Ancient News Notes" (article), "A Sure Method"
O. Henry Encore (1939), collection of 27 short stories, 7 sketches and 10 poems:
Part one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Father", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski's Hair", "A Mystery of Many Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Character", "A Houston Romance", "The Legend of San Jacinto", "Binkley's Practical School of Journalism", "A New Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Did It", "Nothing New Under the Sun", "Led Astray", "A Story for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The Barber Talks", "Barber Shop Adventure"
Part two. Sketches: "Did You See the Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When the Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New Year's Eve and Now it Came to Houston", "'Watchman, What of the Night?'", "Newspaper Poets"
Part three. Newspaper Poetry: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Choice", "'Little Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?'", "Last Fall of the Alamo"
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