"In Coralio--a sultry coastal town in the volatile banana republic of Anchuria--a disparate cast of vagabonds, hucksters, mercenaries, merchants, and consuls is busy plotting, scamming, drinking, loving, or trying to forget the past. Each has his own tale to tell and his own particular reason for washing up on these tropical shores--and all have a part to play as this [novel] of twisting narrative begins to unfold"--Back cover.
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"In Coralio--a sultry coastal town in the volatile banana republic of Anchuria--a disparate cast of vagabonds, hucksters, mercenaries, merchants, and consuls is busy plotting, scamming, drinking, loving, or trying to forget the past. Each has his own tale to tell and his own particular reason for washing up on these tropical shores--and all have a part to play as this [novel] of twisting narrative begins to unfold"--Back cover.
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Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Marbled paper with red leather corners and spine, spinecover missing, corners rubbed and well worn. Front hinge is very weak. No markings in text.
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New York. 1946. June 1946. Signet/New American Library. 1st Penguin Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 184 pages. paperback. 595. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Best-known for the ‘sharp, unlooked-for twist' at the end of his stories, O. Henry has had a strong influence on the writers of his own and succeeding generations, both here and in Europe. O. Henry, of course, was the pen-name of William Sydney Porter, born at Greensboro, North Carolina, on September 11, 1862. He left school at the age of fifteen and a few years later went to Texas to learn the cattle business on a ranch belonging to a friend of his family's. His next stop was Austin, where he held a variety of jobs, and for a year was the owner and editor of a small newspaper. It was at about this time that his first sketches appeared in the Detroit Free Press and in the Houston Daily Post. From Texas, he drifted to Central America where he ‘knocked around mostly among refugees and consuls' and other odd characters who figure large in Cabbages and Kings. Not long after he returned to the States, O. Henry came to New York on the invitation of a magazine editor. In New York his life centered around Madison Square and Irving Place, where he haunted the streets and parks, the bars and restaurants. One of the highest paid and most prolific of writers, O. Henry turned out some 600 pieces of fiction during his lifetime. He died in New York of tuberculosis, on June 5, 1910. Eight years later, the Society of Arts and Sciences founded the O. Henry Memorial award for the best short story published each year. inventory #41519.
