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New Yorkers

Short Stories

New Yorkers( )
Author: Henry, O.
Contribution by: Basset, Jennifer
Hedge, Tricia
Series title:Oxford Bookworms Library
ISBN:978-0-19-422789-6
Publication Date:Sep 1995
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Book Format:Audio cassette
List Price:AUD $26.95
Book Description:

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

Book Details
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.9 x 10.9 x 1.7 cm
Book Weight:0.07 Kilograms
Author Biography
Henry, O. (Author)
O. Henry is the pen name of William Sidney Porter, who was born on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Porter was a licensed pharmacist and worked on a sheep ranch in Texas. He was a draftsman for the General Land Office and a teller for the First National Bank of Texas. He was convicted of embezzlement and eventually served five years in prison.

While in prison, he began writing short stories under his pseudonym and eventually wrote over 300. As O. Henry, Porter is one of America's best known writers, and his stories, such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief", are still taught in schools. In 1918, the O. Henry Awards, an annual anthology of short stories, was established in his honor.

Porter died on June 5, 1910.

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