O. Henry

O. Henry is the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter (1862–1910) and the name under which he published all of his work, which includes a novel and some 300 short stories. His talent for vivid caricature, local tone, narrative agility, and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle’s drugstore as a youth, becoming a certified pharmacist.   Like many southerners after the Civil War, Porter sought his fortune in the West, holding various jobs such as that of a clerk in a land office and a teller at an Austin bank. Charged with embezzlement in 1894,…

The Gift of the Magi

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories 41 Stories

41 Stories

O. Henry
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw

The Raven and the Monkey's Paw

Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Saki, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Wilkie Collins, Ambrose Bierce, W. W. Jacobs
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry Selected Stories

Selected Stories

O. Henry

Series with O. Henry

Books by O. Henry from Candlewick

Books by O. Henry from Astra Publishing House

Books by O. Henry from The Library of America