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The Gentle Grafter (Literature of Mystery and Detection)

Porter, William Sydney

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ayer Co. Pub

"No, sir, it was just as I said. We were self-curbed. It was a case of auto-suppression. There was a rift within the loot, as Albert Tennyson says. "You remember I told you that me and Andy Tucker was partners for some years. That man was the most talented conniver at stratagems I ever saw. Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way. Andy was educated, too, besides having a lot of useful information. He had acquired a big amount of experience out of books, and could talk for hours on any subject connected with ideas and discourse. He had been in every line of graft from lecturing on Palestine with a lot of magic lantern pictures of the annual Custom-made Clothiers' Association convention at Atlantic City to flooding Connecticut with bogus wood alcohol distilled from nutmegs. "One Spring me and Andy had been over in Mexico on a flying trip during which a Philadelphia capitalist had paid us $2,500 for a half interest in a silver mine in Chihuahua. Oh, yes, the mine was all right. The other half interest must have been worth two or three thousand. I often wondered who owned that mine.

The Gentle Grafter (Transaction Large Print Books)

Literature & Fiction

Henry, O.

Literary

Transaction Pub Large Print

A collection of twenty-six short stories, all but one of which originally appeared in the "New York World"

The Best of O. Henry

Classics

Running Pr Book Pub

Strictly Business

History

Nabu Press

O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for his short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O. Henry stories: “The Plutonian Fire”, “The Princess and the Puma”, “By Courier”, “The Gift of the Magi”, “The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein”, “Mammon and the Archer”, “The Memento”, “Springtime À La Carte”, “The Last Leaf”, “The Skylight Room”, “The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock”, “The Count And The Wedding Guest”, “The Romance of a Busy Broker”, “The Higher Pragmatism”, “While the Auto Waits”, “The Social Triangle”, “After Twenty Years”, “The Green Door”, “A Lickpenny Lover”, “Lost on Dress Parade”, “Transients in Arcadia”, “Brickdust Row”, “The Furnished Room”, “Schools And Schools”, “The Defeat of the City”, “Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches”, “From Each According to his Ability”, “The Cabellero’s Way”, “Hygeia at the Solito”, “The Higher Abdication”, “A Double-Dyed Deceiver”, “Friends in San Rosario”, “The Hiding of Black Bill”, “Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet”, “The Man Higher Up”, “The Handbook of Hymen”, “Telemachus, Friend”, “The Lonesome Road”, “A Retrieved Reformation”, “The Renaissance at Charleroi”, “The Thing’s the Play”, “Tobin’s Palm”, “A Newspaper Story”, “Proof of the Pudding”, and “Confessions Of A Humorist”. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

The Selected Stories of O. Henry

O'Henry

Short Stories & Anthologies

Digireads.com Publishing

Cabbages and Kings

This book was written while by a man on the lam, literally, in Honduras. O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter) was awaiting trial over bank embezzlement changes, and his father in law posted bail to keep him out of jail -- but the day before Porter was due to stand trial he fled, first to New Orleans and later to Honduras. While holed up in a Trujillo, Honduras, hotel for several months, he wrote Cabbages and Kings. This is the book where Henry coined the term "banana republic" to describe the country; the term went on to be used to describe almost any small, unstable tropical nation in Latin America. And then his wife's long-term illness took a turn for the worse: she was dying of tuberculosis. Porter packed his bags and went back to face trial in Houston. This volume is the only work of O. Henry's which approaches being a novel. The stories are related and should be read in the sequence in which they occur in the book.

United States

Aegypan

Looking for an enjoyable, wholesome, self-directed literature program for your Christian homeschooled high schoolers? Set your teens up with some great reads--then watch them take off on their own and have fun doing it! You love your kids and want them to read the best stuff: true classics, not just any old writings that the world calls "classics." Literature for Christian Homeschoolers is an exciting, faith-affirming, structured literature program with everything your students need for success. Scott Clifton--author, homeschool dad of seven, and high school co-op literature teacher since 2002--has scoured the world (and a few other planets) for just the kind of fiction and non-fiction you want your young person to read. These sets are packed with high-quality essays, novels, short stories, speeches, letters, and poems--including many hidden gems you've probably never even heard of! And each of the four Literature for Christian Homeschoolers sets (American, Classic, British, World) is designed to make reading fun and edifying for students, and a breeze for homeschooling parents. Here's what you'll get with Literature for Christian Homeschoolers: * Varied readings that will captivate and build up your teen student * A handy, 30-week, 4-days-per-week reading schedule * Intros, footnotes, and review questions (with answer keys!) * Easy-to-score quizzes (with answer keys!) * A Christian worldview throughout Buy Literature for Christian Homeschoolers for your homeschool family today!

Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 4: Short Story Classics

TOLSTOY, LEO

DODGE, Mary Mapes

DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE

ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY

Munro, Hector Hugh

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

TWAIN,MARK

MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud

Independently published

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