About. Henry recognized master of short story. His novels are unusually entertaining and witty. He knows how to immediately win the attention of the reader, arouse interest and keep in suspense until the very end of the narrative. Every novel by O. Henry contains some mystery, and the reader seeks to solve it, but, as we do not refine our imagination, the solution is always not the same as we expected, and, however, this does not cause us a sense of vexation. On the contrary, it gives us pleasure to be convinced of the ingenuity of the author, whose stock of witty inventions is truly inexhaustible. This edition presents selected works of the American writer O. Henry . Tom I. "Kings and Cabbage" Stories from the collections "Four Million", "The Burning Lamp", "Heart of the West" Volume II. Stories from the collections "Voice of the big city", "The noble crook", "Roads of fate", "To choose", "Business people", "Collaring", "Just a little", "Lying stone", "Remains" . "O. Henry" afterword A. Anixta