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The Furnished Room, a story by O. Henry published serially in 1904 and then collected in The Four Million in 1906. Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population
The Skylight Room by O. Henry
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The Cactus by O. Henry
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Babes in the Jungle by O. Henry
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According to Their Lights by O. Henry
Somewhere in the depths of the big city, where the unquiet dregs are forever being shaken together, young Murray and the Captain had met and become friends. Both were at the lowest ebb possible to
The Nice People by Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Nice People by Henry Cuyler Bunner, who lived between August 3, 1855 and May 11, 1896. “They certainly are nice people,” I assented to my wife’s observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness
The Last Leaf
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CHINUA ACHEBE (1930-2013) A summary of of the life of the renowned Nigerian author – Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe of Nigeria was one of the most famous 20th Century African writers. He published his first
Queen Elizabeth II in Nigeria
Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria many times before her death. Read on to find out more. Queen Elizabeth II in Nigeria There will be no Nigeria without mentioning the Britons. The history that has bound