While the Auto Waits by O. Henry is a famous short story about two strangers who meet in a park and pretend to be from different social classes, only to reveal their true identities in a classic twist ending: the seemingly wealthy woman is a cashier, and the man pretending to be a humble worker…
Probably O’Henry’s most well-known story, The Gift of the Magi, originally published in the collection, The Four Million, published in 1906. O. Henry (1862–1910), the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, was a prolific American short story writer known for his wit, wordplay, and unexpected plot twists, most famously in “The Gift of the Magi.” He…
I was thinking the other day I don’t have near enough O. Henry. in fact, I don’t have any. Time to fix that. Why not start with one of his best stories, the Ransom of Red Chief. The story first appeared in the July 6, 1907 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It has been…
