Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking

by O. Henry, Golden Deer Classics

Overview

This story was the first which William Sydney Poerter published under the pseudonym O. Henry, and appeared in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine. It was later collected in Roads of Destiny, of which the earliest edition in the Library of Congress catalog was in 1913.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782377937868
Publisher:	Oregan Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2017
Series:	Golden Deer Classics' Christmas Shelf , #38
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	15
File size:	356 KB

About the Author

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) was a prolific American short story writer. Initially trained as a pharmacist, Porter began his writing career as a journalist and worked on his stories on the side. After being accused of embezzling money from a bank he worked for, he fled to Honduras. He returned to the US upon the death of his wife and was sentenced to five years in prison. It was during this time that he began to have his first stories published. He later moved to New York and began writing stories in earnest. Some of his most famous stories include "Gift of the Magi" and "The Caballero's Way" which introduced the character, the Cisco Kid.