An edition of The Ransom of Red Chief (1918)

The ransom of Red Chief

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An edition of The Ransom of Red Chief (1918)

The ransom of Red Chief

  • 2.5 (2 ratings) ·
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  • 2 Have read

Two men kidnap a mischievous boy and request a large ransom for his return.

Publish Date
Publisher
Creative Education
Language
English
Pages
40

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Ransom Of Red Chief
The Ransom Of Red Chief
2008, Oxford University Press, USA
Cover of: The Ransom of Red Chief
The Ransom of Red Chief
August 1, 1995, Pages Publishing Group
Paperback in English
Cover of: The ransom of Red Chief
The ransom of Red Chief
1980, Creative Education
in English
Cover of: The ransom of Red Chief
The ransom of Red Chief
1970, Hawthorn Books
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: The ransom of Red Chief
The ransom of Red Chief: and other O. Henry stories for boys
1918, Doubleday, Page & company
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Mankato, Minn
Series
Creative classic series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.P834 Ran 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
40 p. :
Number of pages
40

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4106908M
Internet Archive
ransomofredchief0000henr_y7j9
ISBN 10
0871917769
LCCN
80021656
OCLC/WorldCat
6707925
Goodreads
5089369

First Sentence

"SAM [AS NARRATOR]: It looked like a good thing: but wait'll I tell you."

Work Description

Two small-time criminals, Bill and Sam, kidnap Johnny, the 10-year-old red-haired son of an important citizen named Ebenezer Dorset, and hold him for ransom. But the moment they arrive at their hideout with the boy, the plan begins to unravel. Calling himself "Red Chief", the boy proceeds to drive his captors to distraction with his unrelenting chatter, malicious pranks, and demands that they play wearying games with him. The criminals write a ransom letter to the boy's father, lowering the ransom from two thousand dollars to fifteen hundred at Bill's suggestion. The father, who knows his son well and realizes how intolerable he will be to his captors and how desirous they will soon be to rid themselves of the delinquent child, rejects their demand and offers to take the boy off their hands if they pay him. The men hand over the money and the howling boy – who had actually been happier being away from his stricter father and thus does not want to be "rescued" from his more-lenient captors – and flee after the father threatens to turn his son loose on them. (Wikipedia)

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