William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry

O. Henry Encore (1939), collection of 27 short stories, 7 sketches and 10 poems:

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   Part one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Father", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski's Hair", "A Mystery of Many Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Character", "A Houston Romance", "The Legend of San Jacinto", "Binkley's Practical School of Journalism", "A New Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Did It", "Nothing New Under the Sun", "Led Astray", "A Story for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The Barber Talks", "Barber Shop Adventure"
   
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   Part two. Sketches: "Did You See the Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When the Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New Year's Eve and Now it Came to Houston", "'Watchman, What of the Night?'", "Newspaper Poets"
   
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   Part three. Newspaper Poetry: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Choice", "'Little Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?'", "Last Fall of the Alamo"
   

Uncollected short stories:

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  "Tictocq, the Great French Detective" (1894)
  
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  "Tictocq, the Great French Detective; or, A Soubrette’s Diamonds" (1894)
  
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  "A Blow All 'Round" (1895)
  
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  "A Chicago Proposal" (1895)
  
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  "A Fishy Story" (1895)
  
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  "A Foretaste" (1895)
  
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  "A Literal Caution" (1895)
  
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  "A Philadelphia Diagnosis" (1895)
  
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  "A Thousand Dollar Poem, was what the Literary Judgment of the Business Manager Lost for the Paper" (1895)
  
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  "All Right" (1895)
  
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  "And Put Up a Dime" (1895)
  
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  "Arrived" (1895)
  
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  "As Her Share" (1895)
  
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  "Ballad of the Passionate Eye" (1895)
  
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  "Cheaper in Quantities" (1895)
  
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  "Didn't Want Him Back" (1895)
  
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  "Do You Know?" (1895)
  
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  "Enlarging His Field" (1895)
  
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  "Entirely Successful" (1895)
  
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  "Extremes Met" (1895)
  
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  "False to His Colors" (1895)
  
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  "Family Pride" (1895)
  
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  "He Was Behind With His Board" (1895)
  
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  "Her Reckoning" (1895)
  
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  "His Last Chance" (1895)
  
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  "Making the Most of It" (1895)
  
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  "Might Be" (1895)
  
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  "Military or Millinery?" (1895)
  
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  "No Chestnuts Were Served" (1895)
  
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  "No Earlier" (1895)
  
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  "Not Hers" (1895)
  
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  "Not Official Statistics, However" (1895)
  
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  "Palmistry" (1895)
  
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  "Prodigality" (1895)
  
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  "Professional, But Doubtful" (1895)
  
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  "Prudent Precautions" (1895)
  
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  "Same Thing" (1895)
  
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  "Self Conceit" (1895)
  
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  "Silver Question Settled" (1895)
  
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  "Sunday Journalism, Memoranda of the Sabbath Editor of the New York Daily for Next Sunday's Contents" (1895)
  
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  "The Fate It Deserved" (1895)
  
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  "The Man at the Window" (1895)
  
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  "The Modern Kind" (1895)
  
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  "The New Hero" (1895)
  
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  "The Odor Located" (1895)
  
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  "The Teacher Taught" (1895)
  
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  "The White Feather" (1895)
  
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  "Uncle Sam's Wind" (1895)
  
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  "Whole Handfuls" (1895)
  
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  "Will She Fight as She Jokes? Here Are Some Translations of Recent Spanish Humour" (1895)
  
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  "Yellow Specials, Latest Style of News Write Ups adopted by the sulphur-hued journals" (1895)
  
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  "A Tragedy" (1896, as The Postman)
  
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  "At an Auction" (1896)
  
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  "Telegram" (1896)
  
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  "His Courier" (1902)
  
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  "The Flag" (1902)
  
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  "The Guardian of the Scutcheon" (1903, as Olivier Henry)
  
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  "The Lotus and the Cockleburrs" (1903)
  
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  "The Point of the Story" (1903, as Sydney Porter)
  
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  "The Quest of Soapy" (1908)
  
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  "A Christmas Pi" (1909, as O. H-nry)
  
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  "Adventures in Neurasthenia" (1910)
  
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  "Last Story" (1910)
  

Poems[edit]
Uncollected poems:

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  "Already Provided" (1895)
  
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  "Archery" (1895)
  
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  "At Cockcrow" (1895)
  
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  "Honeymoon Vapourings" (1895)
  
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  "Never, Until Now" (1895)
  
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  "Ornamental" (1895)
  
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  "The Imported Brand" (1895)
  
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  "The Morning glory" (1895)
  
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  "The White Violet" (1895)
  
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  "To Her" (XRay) Photograph" (1895)
  
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  "Unseeing" (1895)
  
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  "Promptings" (1899)
  
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  "Sunset in the Far North" (1901)
  
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  "The Captive" (1901)
  
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  "Uncaptured Joy" (1901)
  
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  "April" (1903)
  
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  "Auto Bugle Song" (1903)
  
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  "June" (1903)
  
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  "Remorse" (1903)
  
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  "Spring in the City" (1903)
  
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  "To a Gibson Girl" (1903)
  
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  "Two Chapters" (1903)
  
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  "A Floral Valentine" (1905)