These stories of the city O. Henry called home roam from vaudeville dressing rooms to Wall Street, Bowery saloons and a rooftop love affair high above the avenues. The collection also travels south for A Municipal Report, his answer to the claim that nothing ever happens in Nashville. Its dialect and racial language are those of 1910.
Quick, slangy and full of twist endings, it shows the master of the American short story in his prime. Download the free EPUB.