The Gentle Grafter
by O. Henry
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About This Book
"The Gentle Grafter" looks at business from a distinctly shady angle, with its stories about cool-headed, sharp-dressing trickster Jeff Peters. O. Herny was a supreme story teller, drawing his material from the lives of ordinary people - clerks, city dwellers, exiles and drifters. O. Henry was the pseudonym for William Sydney Porter, master of the short story. His empathy ran deep and he wrote in the language of the man in the street. In March of 1898 he was sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary. During his term he began his serious writing. He would use a score of pseudonyms in ...
Chapters (25)
- THE GENTLE GRAFTER
- O. Henry
- Author of "The Four Million," "The Voice of the City," "The Trimmed Lamp," "Strictly Business," "Whirligigs," Etc.
- Illustrated by
- H. C. Greening and May Wilson Preston
- 1919
- CONTENTS
- THE OCTOPUS MAROONED
- JEFF PETERS AS A PERSONAL MAGNET
- MODERN RURAL SPORTS
- THE CHAIR OF PHILANTHROMATHEMATICS
- THE HAND THAT RILES THE WORLD
- THE EXACT SCIENCE OF MATRIMONY
- A MIDSUMMER MASQUERADE
- SHEARING THE WOLF
- INNOCENTS OF BROADWAY
- CONSCIENCE IN ART
- THE MAN HIGHER UP
- A TEMPERED WIND
- HOSTAGES TO MOMUS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE ETHICS OF PIG
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