This collection brings together a considerable selection of the work that won O. Henry his millions of readers and also seeks to extend the limits of what we think of when we wat the words "an O. Henry story."
It includes the complete Cabbage and Kings, the novel in stories that O. Henry's first published book which is set in a Latin American republic at the turn of the century; it's an engaging, often funny story of love and greed and chicanery.