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O. Henry

O. Henry's catalog on Steamy Shelf showcases a diverse array of romance themes spanning over a century, from 1906 to 2012. With a dominant sweet heat level, the author's work primarily features popular tropes such as Enemies to Lovers and Friends to Lovers, often exploring the nuances of relationships through Slow Burn dynamics. Elements of Gothic Romance and Found Family further enrich the narratives, allowing for a blend of contemporary settings with timeless emotional depth. The style reflects a keen understanding of romantic tension and character development, making the stories engaging and relatable for readers who enjoy heartfelt connections.

12 books on the shelf

Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Louisa May Alcott
Prentice Hall Literature
Prentice Hall Literature
Pat Mora, Alan Axelrod, Amy Ash Nixon, Neil Postman, Martín Espada, Антон Павлович Чехов, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Wilbur, Όμηρος, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Atwood, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Chief Dan George, Leslie Marmon Silko, Robert Frost, Lian Dolan, Mark Twain, Isabel Allende, William Stafford, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Walter Dean Myers, Chiyojo, Martin Luther King Jr., Judith Ortiz Cofer, William Shakespeare, Janet Kay Jensen, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Ama Ata Aidoo, Langston Hughes, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Scott McCloud, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Kevin Feldman, May Swenson, James Thurber, Edwin Muir, James Hurst, Saki, Michael Frayn, Carl Sandburg, Arthur C. Clarke, Julia Alvarez, Ray Bradbury, Wayson Choy, Walt Whitman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edgar Allan Poe, Lorraine Hansberry, Dean Smith, Richard Brautigan, Toni Cade Bambara, John A. McPhee, Guy de Maupassant, Lewis Carroll, Ovid, Derek Walcott, Felton, Harold W., Rudolfo A. Anaya, Cynthia Rylant, Joan Aiken, O. Henry, Billy Collins, William Wordsworth, Henry Alford, Adam Kirsch, E. E. Cummings, Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Georges-G Toudouze, Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, T. S. Eliot, Amy Tan, Kevin Feldman, Emily Dickinson, Gary Blackwood, Sally Ride, Jean de Sponde, Edith Hamilton, Victor Hernández Cruz, Galway Kinnell, Bill Cosby, Elizabeth McCracken, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger, Lady Bird Johnson, Gabriela Mistral, Richard Connell, Stanley Kunitz, Basho, John Kilgo, Pete Hamil, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rachel Carson
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Антон Павлович Чехов, Virginia A. Walter, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Όμηρος, Isaac Asimov, Shu, Ting, Gladys Cardiff, Basho, Joan Didion, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bryan Woolley, Bill Gates, Steven Gietschier, Margaret Atwood, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, Chief Dan George, Leslie Marmon Silko, Robert Frost, Ralph Helfer, Mark Twain, Isabel Allende, William Stafford, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wisława Szymborska, Walter Dean Myers, Chiyojo, Martin Luther King Jr., Henriqueta Lisboa, William Shakespeare, John E. Kennedy, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Madeleine Blais, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Alex Chadwick, Langston Hughes, George Herzog, Margaret Walker, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, James A. Michener, Scott McCloud, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, James Thurber, Edwin Muir, James Hurst, Saki, David Schuyler, Kate Kinsella, Carl Sandburg, Arthur C. Clarke, Julia Alvarez, Lillian Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, Keav Davidson, Naomi Shihab Nye, DeWitt Bodeen, Pattiann Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Brautigan, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Toni Cade Bambara, Harold Courlander, Tomás Rivera, John A. McPhee, Rosa Parks, Barry Lopez, Guy de Maupassant, Lewis Carroll, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Cynthia Rylant, Joan Aiken, O. Henry, William Wordsworth, John Keats, E. E. Cummings, Gary Soto, Mitch Albom, Alice Walker, T. S. Eliot, Amy Tan, Emily Dickinson, Jeffrey Kluger, Sally Ride, Edith Hamilton, Victor Hernández Cruz, Galway Kinnell, Edward Lawrence Thayer, Marge Piercy, Bill Cosby, Sebastian Junger, Lady Bird Johnson, Gabriela Mistral, Richard Connell, Shirley Jackson, Horton Foote, Daphne du Maurier, Walter De la Mare, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea Stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson, Ishmael Reed, Rachel Carson
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Антон Павлович Чехов, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Όμηρος, Isaac Asimov, Bryan Wooley, Shu, Ting, Gladys Cardiff, Joan Didion, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bill Gates, Steven Gietschier, Margaret Atwood, Patricia Volk, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, Chief Dan George, Leslie Marmon Silko, Robert Frost, Ralph Helfer, Mark Twain, Isabel Allende, William Stafford, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Wisława Szymborska, Walter Dean Myers, Chiyojo, Martin Luther King Jr., Henriqueta Lisboa, William Shakespeare, John Lennon, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Alex Chadwick, Langston Hughes, George Herzog, Margaret Walker, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, James A. Michener, Scott McCloud, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, James Thurber, Edwin Muir, James Hurst, Saki, Carl Sandburg, Arthur C. Clarke, Julia Alvarez, Lillian Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pattiann Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Brautigan, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Toni Cade Bambara, Tomás Rivera, John A. McPhee, Rosa Parks, Gary Larson, Harold Apter, Ronald D. Moore, Barry Lopez, Guy de Maupassant, Lewis Carroll, Derek Walcott, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Cynthia Rylant, Keay Davidson, Joan Aiken, O. Henry, Carol Domblewski, Harold Courtlander, William Wordsworth, John Keats, James Haskins, E. E. Cummings, Basho, Alice Walker, T. S. Eliot, Amy Tan, Emily Dickinson, Sally Ride, Edith Hamilton, Victor Hernández Cruz, Galway Kinnell, Marge Piercy, Bill Cosby, Lady Bird Johnson, U2, Gabriela Mistral, Richard Connell, The Beatles, Henry Aaron, Shirley Jackson, Horton Foote, Daphne du Maurier, Walter De la Mare, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ishmael Reed, Rachel Carson
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs, Wilkie Collins, Saki, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Theodore Roethke, Leslie Silko, Όμηρος, Marchette Gaylord Chute, Margaret Atwood, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, Chief Dan George, Robert Frost, Mark Twain, Isabel Allende, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Wisława Szymborska, Chiyojo, Martin Luther King Jr., John Updike, Morley Callaghan, William Shakespeare, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, John Masefield, Thor Heyerdahl, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Frank R. Stockton, James Thurber, James Hurst, Paule Marshall, Saki, Gordon Parks, Gabriel García Márquez, Carl Sandburg, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arthur C. Clarke, Basho, Ellen Harkins Wheat, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Simon J. Ortiz, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Toni Cade Bambara, Tomás Rivera, John A. McPhee, Guy de Maupassant, Lewis Carroll, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Derek Walcott, Grant Moss Jr., Rudolfo A. Anaya, James C. Rettie, Yoshiko Uchida, O. Henry, William Wordsworth, William Least Heat Moon, E. E. Cummings, Gary Soto, Sumner Braunstein, William Gibson, T. S. Eliot, Amy Tan, Sui Wai Anderson, Sally Ride, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Browning, Marge Piercy, Gabriela Mistral, Donald Justice, John G. Neihardt, Richard Connell, Bruce Chatwin, Walter De la Mare, James Joyce
Short Stories
Short Stories
William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Henry James, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Sarah Orne Jewett, John Steinbeck, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Fitz-James O'Brien
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James., William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Cochrane, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, James Cochrane, John Updike, Ring Lardner, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, James Cochrane, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote
Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Mary Stegner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hortense Calisher, Stephen Crane, James Thurber, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Hamlin Garland, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Horgan, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Wilbur Daniel Steele, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, William March, Ambrose Bierce, Conrad Aiken, Mary (editor) Stegner
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Philip Morin Freneau, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Francis Wright, Lillian Hellman, William Saroyan, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Eugenia Collier, Louise Bogan, Adrienne Rich, W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Leslie Silko, Vern Rutsala, Isaac Asimov, Henry David Thoreau, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Stephen Vincent Benét, William Faulkner, W. H. Auden, Irwin Shaw, Tom Wolfe, Robinson Jeffers, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, William Cullen Bryant, Norman Cousins, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leonie Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Eberhart, Taylor, Edward, Sara Teasdale, Brad Schulberg, John Davenport, James Russell Lowell, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Robert Frost, Benjamin Franklin, Willa Cather, Morris Bishop, Claude McKay, Anne Bradstreet, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, William Stafford, Dorothy Parker, William Bradford, Jonathan Edwards, Vannevar Bush, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Updike, Thomas Paine, Thornton Wilder, Conrad Richter, Mari Evans, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Kate Chopin, Jim Wayne Miller, David Wagoner, Satanta, Stephen Crane, William Byrd II, Amiri Baraka, May Swenson, James Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Thurber, Frederick Douglass, E. B. White, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Archibald MacLeish, Denise Levertov, Carl Sandburg, Maxine Kumin, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, James Edwin Miller, Vachel Lindsay, George Santayana, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, Edith Wharton, Randall Jarrell, Philip Hamburger, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, John Smith, Lorraine Hansberry, Patrick F. McManus, Cleveland Amory, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Esther Forbes, Henry Timrod, Ezra Pound, Bret Harte, Theodore Hornberger, Walter Blair, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Abram Joseph Ryan, Paul Horgan, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Rodriguez, Mona Van Duyn, Robert E. Lee, Henry James, Paul Engle, E. J. Kahn, Edward Rowe Snow, Sherwood Anderson, David McCord, Robert Lowell, Lewis Thomas, Washington Irving, O. Henry, John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams, Jacques Barzun, Paul Farmer, Thomas Jefferson, Don Marquis, Jean Toomer, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Willard Armour, E. E. Cummings, Gary Soto, Sinclair Lewis, James Masao Mitsui, Sarah Orne Jewett, Amy Lowell, Margaret Fuller, John Greenleaf Whittier, James W. C. Pennington, Eugene O'Neill, T. S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Emily Dickinson, Howard Nemerov, James Baldwin, Elinor Wylie, Lawson Fusao Inada, Karl Jay Shapiro, Margaret Wasson, John N. Morris, Ambrose Bierce, Sarah Kemble Knight, N. Scott Momaday, Tennessee Williams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seattle Chief, Robert Anderson, Ralph Ellison, Sidney Lanier, Countee Cullen, Galway Kinnell, Sylvia Plath, Theresa Helburn, Conrad Aiken, Chief Joseph, Ernest Hemingway, Byrd, William, Ogden Nash, W. L. White, Frank C. Laubach, Douglas Southall Freeman, Phyllis McGinley, Marianne Moore, John Smith, Pearl S. Buck, Annie Dillard, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, George Washington, James Fenimore Cooper, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, Phillis Wheatley, Wallace Stevens, Jesse Stuart, Louisa May Alcott, Carson McCullers, Kerry M. Wood, Robert C. Pooley, Cotton Mather
A Book of Short Stories
A Book of Short Stories
Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Pratt Sherman, J. M. Barrie, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Charles Dickens
The gift of the Magi
The gift of the Magi
O. Henry