The Four Million

This is the best-known collection of O. Henry’s stories, including the classics, “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Cop and the Anthem,” along with 23 others that tell some of the four million stories of the denizens of New York, from factory girls, cops, artists, vagabonds, and cabbies to Irish toughs and men about town. O. Henry is now considered the American Guy du Maupassant, a master storyteller famous for the ironic twists and surprise endings in his tales.