The Four Million
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
New York City has never felt so intimate, so electric, or so achingly human as it does through the eyes of O. Henry. The Four Million — a pointed rebuke to the socialite Ward McAllister's claim that only four hundred people in New York truly mattered — presents forty short stories that champion the city's vast, overlooked working-class population: shopgirls, cab drivers, artists, and drifters, each carrying private worlds of longing, wit, and heartbreak within the clamour of the metropolis. O. Henry's prose is a masterclass in the deceptively simple sentence that conceals a perfectly sprung trap, and nowhere is his signature twist ending more devastatingly deployed than here. Among its pages sits The Gift of the Magi, perhaps the most celebrated short story in American literature, a tale whose final irony illuminates the nature of sacrifice and love with disarming clarity. A landmark of early twentieth-century American fiction, this collection cements O. Henry's enduring legacy as the supreme chronicler of the ordinary miracle — and leaves the reader wondering which of the four million they themselves might be.
Author: O. Henry
Format: Hardback
Published: 1909, Doubleday, Page & Company
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
New York City has never felt so intimate, so electric, or so achingly human as it does through the eyes of O. Henry. The Four Million — a pointed rebuke to the socialite Ward McAllister's claim that only four hundred people in New York truly mattered — presents forty short stories that champion the city's vast, overlooked working-class population: shopgirls, cab drivers, artists, and drifters, each carrying private worlds of longing, wit, and heartbreak within the clamour of the metropolis. O. Henry's prose is a masterclass in the deceptively simple sentence that conceals a perfectly sprung trap, and nowhere is his signature twist ending more devastatingly deployed than here. Among its pages sits The Gift of the Magi, perhaps the most celebrated short story in American literature, a tale whose final irony illuminates the nature of sacrifice and love with disarming clarity. A landmark of early twentieth-century American fiction, this collection cements O. Henry's enduring legacy as the supreme chronicler of the ordinary miracle — and leaves the reader wondering which of the four million they themselves might be.