The Voice of the City

Further Stories of the Four Million

by O. Henry

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The Voice of the City, subtitled Further Stories of the Four Million, is by O. Henry. The contents list stories titled While the Auto Waits, A Comedy in Rubber, One Thousand Dollars and The Defeat of the City. A story describes Mrs. Hopkins as like a thousand others, with all the attributes of the Gotham flat-dweller.

A story says that in the Big City large and sudden things happen, and gives the example of rounding a corner and thrusting the rib of your umbrella into the eye of your old friend from Kootenai Falls. A piece states that the natural is rounded and the artificial is made up of angles, and that a man lost in the snow wanders, in spite of himself, in perfect circles.

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O. Henry

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer celebrated for his warm, witty short stories and their surprise endings. He drew on a varied life as a pharmacist, bank teller, and one-time prison inmate, and became one of America's most popular storytellers.