The stories of the great O. Henry... Their heroes are sometimes just the 'little people' of big New York, sometimes frivolous and cheerful artists and writers, sometimes guys from a rough, gangster-ridden neighborhood and their touchingly faithful girlfriends, sometimes inhabitants of the Wild West—cowboys, ranchers, farmers... Their plots are always grippingly exciting, the endings swift and unexpected.
But the main advantage of O. Henry's stories is, of course, their humor. Humor that manifests itself in every phrase, in every dialogue. Humor, sometimes evil and venomous, sometimes touching and captivatingly lyrical...