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

Where every story ends with a smile—or a gasp.

Step into the vibrant world of O. Henry, the undisputed master of the short story, whose tales of ordinary people and extraordinary twists have delighted generations of readers around the world.

🖋️ This definitive edition gathers all of O. Henry's short stories, sketches, and writings into one complete volume—bringing to life the humor, irony, and heart that define his legendary style.

📚 This Collection Includes:

The Gift of the Magi — A timeless story of love and sacrifice

The Ransom of Red Chief — A hilarious tale of kidnapping gone wrong

The Last Leaf, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Reformation, and hundreds more…

Complete volumes from collections like Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, Whirligigs, and others

O. Henry's works are bursting with unforgettable characters, surprise endings, and a rich tapestry of early 20th-century American life, from bustling New York City to the quiet towns of the West.

🌟 Why Readers Adore O. Henry:

"The king of the twist ending—no one does it better."

"Heartwarming, witty, and always surprising."

"You can read his stories in minutes—but remember them for years."

📖 Perfect for lovers of short fiction, clever storytelling, and classic Americana, this complete collection is a treasure trove for readers of all ages.

👉 Add The Complete Works of O. Henry to your library today—and experience the charm of storytelling at its finest.


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    Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Lord Byron, Giacomo Leopardi, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, Henry Fielding, George Eliot, William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Lewis Carrol, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Lew Wallace, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Laurence Sterne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterton, Washington Irvin, O.Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Michail Lermontow, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Leo Tolstoi, Nikolai Gogol, Iwan Gontscharow, Nikolai Leskow, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Maxim Gorki, François Rabelais, Jean de la Fontaine, Blaise Pascal, Pierre Corneille, Moliere, Jean Baptiste Racine, Charles Perrault, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Ambroise de Laclos, Antoine-François Prévost, Marquis De Sade, François René Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Guy De Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Jules Verne, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Prosper Mérimée, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, André Gide, Arthur Schopenhauer, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jacob Grimm, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, E. T. Hoffmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Hölderlin, Theodor Fontane, Gustav Freytag, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Stefan Zweig, Joseph von Eichendorff, Klaus Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johanna Spyri, Joseph Roth, Karl May, Robert Musil, Heinrich Mann, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Pirandello, Giosuè Carducci, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Niccolo Machiavelli, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Vicente Blasco Ibañez, Knut Hamsun, Homer, Äsop, Herodot, Thukydides, Xenophon, Platon, - Aristoteles, - Sophokles, Euripides, - Aristophanes, Lao Tse, - Konfuzius, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Lukian, Petronius, Apuleius, Longos von Lesbos, Mark Aurel, Aurelius Augustinus

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    Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Rudyard Kipling, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, O.Henry, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Wolfe, T. E. Lawrence, Lewis Carrol

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    Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, Stefan Zweig, Karl May, Walt Whitman, Arthur Schopenhauer, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Alexandre Dumas, Homer, O.Henry, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Platon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tacitus, Mary Shelley, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Oswald Spengler, Alfred Adler, Rumi

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    Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Lord Byron, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Giacomo Leopardi, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, Henry Fielding, George Eliot, William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Lewis Carrol, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Lew Wallace, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Laurence Sterne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Washington Irving, O.Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Michail Lermontow, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Leo Tolstoi, Nikolai Gogol, Iwan Gontscharow, Nikolai Leskow, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Maxim Gorki, François Rabelais, Jean de la Fontaine, Blaise Pascal, Pierre Corneille, Moliere, Pierre Ambroise de Laclos, Antoine-François Prévost, Marquis De Sade

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  7. Die Meisterwerke der Weltliterature : 100 Klassiker die man kennen muss

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