A Retrieved Reformation

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. The Complete Works of O. Henry : Masterpieces of Wit, Irony, and the Twist Ending

    O.Henry, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  2. The Gift of the Magi : A Timeless Christmas Short Story by O. Henry

    O.Henry, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  3. La senda del solitario

    O.Henry

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  4. The Gift of the Magi : A Short Story That Defines the True Meaning of Giving

    O.Henry, Zenith Golden Quill

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  5. The Complete Works of O. Henry : Masterpieces of Wit, Irony, and Unexpected Endings in One Timeless Collection

    O.Henry, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

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  6. The Gift of the Magi : A Timeless Christmas Short Story of Love, Sacrifice, and Selfless Giving

    O.Henry, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

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  7. O. Henry : The Complete Works

    O.Henry, Zenith Crescent Moon Press

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  8. The Big Book of Christmas : A Treasure Trove of Holiday Magic

    Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Zenith Crescent Moon Press, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Martin Luther, Walter Scott

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  9. The Gift of the Magi : Heartfelt Sacrifices

    O.Henry, Zenith Crescent Moon Press

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  10. Butikspiger

    O.Henry

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  11. 10+ Masterpieces of Classic Adventures Collection : The Call of the Wild, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Heart of Darkness, The Lost World and others

    Jack London, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, O.Henry

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  12. 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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