O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for his short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O. Henry stories: The Plutonian Fire , The Princess and the Puma , By Courier , The Gift of the Magi , The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein , Mammon and the Archer , The Memento , Springtime A La Carte , The Last Leaf , The Skylight Room , The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock , The Count And The Wedding Guest , The Romance of a Busy Broker , The Higher Pragmatism , While the Auto Waits , The Social Triangle , After Twenty Years , The Green Door , A Lickpenny Lover , Lost on Dress Parade , Transients in Arcadia , Brickdust Row , The Furnished Room , Schools And Schools , The Defeat of the City , Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches , From Each According to his Ability , The Cabellero’s Way , Hygeia at the Solito , The Higher Abdication , A Double-Dyed Deceiver , Friends in San Rosario , The Hiding of Black Bill , Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet , The Man Higher Up , The Handbook of Hymen , Telemachus, Friend , The Lonesome Road , A Retrieved Reformation , The Renaissance at Charleroi , The Thing’s the Play , Tobin’s Palm , A Newspaper Story , Proof of the Pudding , and Confessions Of A Humorist . This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.