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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxvii, 433 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
1915
Edition
Authorized ed.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories that fully describe the place and people. O'Henry was a master at stealthily developing his characters within just a few pages of each short story. The last page, of course, is the complete revelation of the character's motive...O'Henry's signature surprise ending.
Author
Series
Super adventures of Wishbone volume 1
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
249 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recalling the days of the old West, Wishbone imagines himself as "Long Bill" Longley, a western hero from O. Henry's book "Heart of the West", who is forced into a showdown with a city-slicker bank examiner.
14) In old Arizona
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A happy-to-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries - from Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghost...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (approximately 106 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate all the romance, warmth and comedy of the holidays... with 'audio movies' from the Wild West, Victorian England, and 19th century Russia and New York. It's the most wonderful time of the year-- as you'll hear in these four festive accounts of the Christmas season. 'The gift of the Magi': O. Henry's poignant story of love and giving where a newlywed couple learn the most precious gift of all. 'Christmas Day at Kirkby College': A charming...
