Why read The Selected Stories of O. Henry?

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Features:
* annotated introductions to the works, giving contextual information
* illustrated with many images relating to O. Henry’s life, works, places and film adaptations
* ALL the short story collections and each with their own contents table
* overall contents tables for the short stories – both alphabetical and…

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1 author picked The Selected Stories of O. Henry as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

B.J. Neblett

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Growing up I often found myself looking at the world through a question mark, often finding irony all around me. An irony that most adults either didn’t recognize or didn’t care to recognize. When my junior high English teacher turned me on to the works of O. Henry, I found a kindred spirit. O. Henry’s slightly askew, often humorous stories mirrored my own often warped view of the world. And I delighted in the brevity with which he told his tales. The short story genre became a favorite of mine. In the fast-paced, no time to spare world we’ve created,…

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