Following The Four Million, these stories return to Manhattan’s ordinary people: a narrator hunting for what the city would say if it could speak, a clerk who lives a whole life in one evening, a shopgirl courted by a millionaire who cannot make himself understood, and a park-bench encounter in While the Auto Waits.
Quick, wry, twist-ending tales from 1908 that show O. Henry’s affection for the city he called Baghdad-on-the-Subway. Download the free EPUB.