With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts MA Ph D This selection of a hundred of O Henry's succinct tales displays the range humour & humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer Here Henry gives a richly colourful & exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life ranging from thieves to tycoons from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail' repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly compounding ironies Indeed O Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates His style is genial lively & witty displaying a virtuoso's command of language & allusion This great collection offers delights for the mind imagination & emotions