The Voice of the City

O. Henry

• Publisher: Start Classics
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781633551787
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust. I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiology class. The most striking line of it was this: "The shin-bone is the long-est bone in the hu-man bod-y." What an inestimable boon it would have been if all the corporeal and spiritual facts pertaining to man had thus been tunefully and logically inculcated in our youthful minds! But what we gained in anatomy, music and philosophy was meagre.

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• THE VOICE OF THE CITY
• THE COMPLETE LIFE OF JOHN HOPKINS
• A LICKPENNY LOVER
• DOUGHERTY'S EYE-OPENER
• LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT
• THE HARBINGER
• WHILE THE AUTO WAITS
• A COMEDY IN RUBBER
• ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
• THE DEFEAT OF THE CITY
• THE SHOCKS OF DOOM
• THE PLUTONIAN FIRE
• NEMESIS AND THE CANDY MAN
• SQUARING THE CIRCLE
• ROSES, RUSES AND ROMANCE
• THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
• THE EASTER OF THE SOUL
• THE FOOL-KILLER
• TRANSIENTS IN ARCADIA
• THE RATHSKELLER AND THE ROSE
• THE CLARION CALL
• EXTRADITED FROM BOHEMIA
• A PHILISTINE IN BOHEMIA
• FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY
• THE MEMENTO