O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: Voice of The City, The Complete Life of John Hopkins, A Lickpenny Lover, Dougherty's Eye Opener, Little Speck In Garnered Fruit, The Harbinger, While the Auto Waits, A Comedy in Rubber, One Thousand Dollars, The Defeat of the City, The Shocks of Doom, The Plutonian Fire, Nemesis and the Candy Man, Squaring the Circle, Roses, Ruses, and Romance, The Four Roses, The City of Dreadful Night, The Easter of the Soul, The Fool-Killer, Transients in Arcadia, The Rathskeller and the Rose, The Clarion Call, Extradited from Bohemia, A Philiptine in Bohemia, From Each According To His Ability, The Memento.