O. Henry

Rolling Stones - The Original Classic Edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Rolling Stones.

This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by O. Henry, which is now, at last, again available to you.

Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Rolling Stones:

So, of the seven condemned only three called their farewells to Murray as he marched down the corridor between the two guards-Bonifacio, Marvin, who had killed a guard while trying to escape from the prison, and Bassett, the train-robber, who was driven to it because the express-messenger wouldnt raise his hands when ordered to do so.

...And my desire was granted, for I saw near a corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth Street, a little flaxen-haired man with a face like a scaly-bark hickory-nut, selling to a fast-gathering crowd a tool that omnigeneously proclaimed itself a can-opener, a screw-driver, a button-hook, a nail-file, a shoe-horn, a watch-guard, a potato-peeler, and an ornament to any gentlemans key-ring.

...He wrote plenty of letters; and every day or two some native gent would stroll round to headquarters and be shut up in the back room for half an hour with OConnor and the interpreter. I noticed that when they went in they were always smoking eight-inch cigars and at peace with the world; but when they came out they would be folding up a ten- or twenty-dollar bill and cursing the government horribly.One evening after we had been in Guaya-in this town of Smellville-by-the-Sea-about a month, and me and OConnor were sitting outside the door helping along old tempus fugit with rum and ice and limes, I says to him:

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emereo Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781486420605
• Artikelnr.: 49529978