O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781421983103
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Modern fiction; Short Stories (Anthologies); Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: Every afternoon at four o'clock, except when the weather was very bad-autumn, winter, and spring-old Mr. Henry McCain drove up to the small, discreet, polished front door, in the small, discreet, fashionable street in which lived fairly old Mrs. Thomas Denby; got out, went up the white marble steps, rang the bell, and was admitted into the narrow but charming hall-dim turquoise-blue velvet panelled into the walls, an etching or two: Whistler, Brangwyn-by a trim parlour-maid.