Stories from Texas ranches and New York streets: Sam Galloway leaving the Rancho Altito in The Last of the Troubadours, a train robber’s confession in Holding Up a Train, a baker’s hopeless kindness in Witches’ Loaves, and the Southern gentleman Major Talbot in The Duplicity of Hargraves. Collected in 1911, after O. Henry’s death.
O. Henry at his most varied, with the twist endings and slangy wit that made him famous. Download the free EPUB.