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    Sixes and Sevens
    Sixes and Sevens
    Sixes and Sevens
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    Sixes and Sevens

    By O. Henry

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    O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term "O. Henry Ending."
     
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    1) The Last of the Troubadours
    2) The Sleuths
    3) Witches' Loaves
    4) The Pride of the Cities
    5) Holding Up a Train
    6) Ulysses and the Dogman
    7) The Champion of the Weather
    8) Makes the Whole World Kin
    9) At Arms with Morpheus
    10) A Ghost of a Chance
    11) Jimmy Hayes and Muriel
    12) The Door of Unrest
    13) The Duplicity of Hargraves
    14) Let Me Feel Your Pulse
    15) October and June
    16) The Church with an Over-Shot-Wheel
    17) New York by Camp Fire Light
    18) The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
    19) The Lady Higher Up
    20) The Great Coney
    21) Law and Order
    22) Transformation of Martin Burney
    23) The Caliph and the Cad
    24) The Diamond at Kali
    25) The Day we Celebrate
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDead Dodo Classic Press
    Release dateOct 23, 2015
    ISBN9781518300196
    Sixes and Sevens
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    O. Henry

    O. Henry (1862-1910) was an American short story writer. Born and raised in North Carolina, O. Henry—whose real name was William Sydney Porter—moved to Texas in 1882 in search of work. He met and married Athol Estes in Austin, where he became well known as a musician and socialite. In 1888, Athol gave birth to a son who died soon after, and in 1889 a daughter named Margaret was born. Porter began working as a teller and bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Austin in 1890 and was fired four years later and accused of embezzlement. Afterward, he began publishing a satirical weekly called The Rolling Stone, but in 1895 he was arrested in Houston following an audit of his former employer. While waiting to stand trial, Henry fled to Honduras, where he lived for six months before returning to Texas to surrender himself upon hearing of Athol’s declining health. She died in July of 1897 from tuberculosis, and Porter served three years at the Ohio Penitentiary before moving to Pittsburgh to care for his daughter. While in prison, he began publishing stories under the pseudonym “O. Henry,” finding some success and launching a career that would blossom upon his release with such short stories as “The Gift of the Magi” (1905) and “The Ransom of Red Chief” (1907). He is recognized as one of America’s leading writers of short fiction, and the annual O. Henry Award—which has been won by such writers as William Faulkner, John Updike, and Eudora Welty—remains one of America’s most prestigious literary prizes.

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