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A Retrieved Reformation

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Do you believe that people can change? Can a bank robber marry the banker’s daughter without having any hidden thoughts and intentions?

"A Retrieved Reformation" tells the story of Jimmy, a formal prisoner, who decides to quit violating the law in the name of love. He takes up a new identity and starts a new life as an honorable man. However he is about to face a choice which can cost him his future.

Will he sacrifice himself in order to save a child in danger or he will prefer to keep his old identity in secret?

William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, was an American writer who lived in the late 19th century. He gains wide popularity with his short stories which often take place either in New York or some small American towns. The plot twists and the surprise endings are a typical and integral part of O. Henry’s short stories. Some of his best known works are "The Gift of the Magi", "The Cop and the Anthem", "A Retrieved Reformation". His stories often deal with ordinary people and the individual aspects of life.

As a result of the outstanding literature legacy that O. Henry left behind, there is an American annual award after his name, given to exceptional short stories.



  1. Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 7 (Humour, Satire and Tall Tales)

    O. Henry, Mark Twain, Saki, Johann Peter Hebel, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Voltaire

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  2. The Santa's Library: 450+ Christmas Novels, Tales, Carols & Legends : A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Gift of the Magi, Christmas-Tree Land, The Three Kings…

    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Max Brand, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Charles Mackay, John Addington Symonds, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, Frances Ridley Havergal, Alphonse Daudet, William John Locke, Walter Scott, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, John Leighton, Booth Tarkington, Ralph Henry Barbour, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Alice Duer Miller, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Armando Palacio Valdés, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Robert Herrick, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Emily Dickinson, Bret Harte, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Meredith Nicholson, Lucas Malet, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Isaac Watts, James Russell Lowell, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Phillips Brooks, Saki, Cyrus Townsend Brady, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Stewart Cutting, Sarah Orne Jewett, François Coppée, Oliver Bell Bunce, Susan Coolidge, Samuel McChord Crothers, Maud Lindsay, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, André Theuriet, Amy Ella Blanchard, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Evaleen Stein, Nell Speed, Amanda M. Douglas, Edgar Wallace, George Wither, Booker T. Washington, Olive Thorne Miller, Margaret Sidney, William Douglas O'Connor, Vernon Lee, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Henry Vaughan, Eliza Cook, Kate Upson Clark, Ben Jonson, Ernest Ingersoll, Frank Samuel Child, Willis Boyd Allen, Georgianna M. Bishop, Edward Thring, F. L. Stealey, James Selwin Tait, Tudor Jenks, L. Frank Baum, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, S. Weir Mitchell, Elbridge S. Brooks, Edward A. Rand, W. H. H. Murray, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harrison S. Morris, Robert E. Howard, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Sarah P. Doughty, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Richard Watson Gilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, Reginald Heber, Lord, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Austin, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Guy De Maupassant, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Georg Schuster, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, William Francis Dawson, Christopher North, Alfred Domett, Dinah Maria Mulock, James S. Park, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Edmund Bolton, C.s. Stone, Harriet F. Blodgett, John G. Whittier, Christian Burke, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, John Punnett Peters, Laura Elizabeth Richards

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  3. 100 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Klassiker die man kennen muss

    Franz Kafka, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Rumi, Platon, Tacitus, Homer, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, Alfred Adler, Marcus Aurelius, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Alexandre Dumas, James Fenimore Cooper, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, O. Henry, Stefan Zweig, Charles Dickens, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph von Eichendorff, Klaus Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Else Lasker-Schüler, Heinrich Heine, Herman Melville, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Gustav Freytag, Thomas Wolfe, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Galsworthy, Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow, Oscar Wilde, Lew Wallace, Voltaire, Lewis Carroll, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Jack London, Miguel de Cervantes, Honoré de Balzac, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Moliere, Theodor Fontane, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoi, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, Heinrich von Kleist, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gottfried Keller, Sophie von La Roche, Theodor Storm, William Shakespeare

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  4. 100 Weihnachtsklassiker der Weltliteratur : Der Weihnachtsabend, Kleine Frauen, Der Weihnachtsengel, Der kleine Prinz, Stolz und Vorurteil, Die Schneekönigin, Frau Holle, Anne auf Green Gables

    Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, E.T.A. Hoffman, L. Frank Baum, O. Henry, Karl May, Max Brand, Arthur Conan Doyle, Abbie Farwell Brown, Lucy Maud Montgomery, J. M. Barrie, George MacDonald, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Anna Sewell, Jane Austen, Nikolaj Gogol, Hans Christian Andersen, Agnes Günther, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Oscar Wilde, Selma Lagerlöf, Brüder Grimm, Beatrix Potter, Kurt Tucholsky, Hermann Kurz, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Adalbert Stifter, Leo Tolstoi, Theodor Storm, Peter Rosegger, Manfred Kyber, Ludwig Ganghofer, Gustav Freytag, Heinrich Seidel, Luise Büchner, Hermann Löns, Wilhelm Raabe, Josef Albert Stöckl, Ludwig Aurbacher, Heinrich Pröhle, Else Ury, Johannes Schlaf, Laurids Bruun, Carl Hauptmann, Hermine Villinger, Gorch Fock, Christoph von Schmid, Rudolf Herzog

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  5. 50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems : A Christmas Carol, A Merry Christmas, A Letter from Santa Claus, Christmas Bells, The Gift of the Magi and others

    Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Harrison, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry van Dyke, Beatrix Potter, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Hesba Stretton, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, Eugene Field, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Topaz McGonagall, Emily Dickinson, G.K. Chesterton

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  6. Tragedia en Harlem

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  7. Mammon y el arquero

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  8. Un sacrificio por amor

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  9. Pasajeros en Arcadia

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  10. La ultima hoja

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  11. La venganza de Cisco Kid

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  12. Los caprichos de la suerte

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