But don’t take it personally if you get fooled, after all it is Strictly Business. Personal interactions and business transactions abound, but sometimes there is a twist. You will meet a wide variety of characters from all walks of life who are trying to make a living via honest (and sometimes dishonest) means. The setting is New York City in the first decade of the 1900’s (the Four Million in the subtitle is a reference to the population of the city at that time as well as to the title of an earlier collection of his short stories). Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, is a collection of twenty-three short stories that was first published in 1908. Henry is often credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. Henry originally released on April 10, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry - that he was in the vanguard in pushing back against the idea of the Four Hundred and that he moved in on Partlan's fictional territory - are not borne out by the facts and must be tested against original sources.Download cover art Download CD case insert Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million The results demonstrate that some established ideas about O. Henry was involved in the selection and arrangement of stories for the book and how much was left to his publisher and others. The collection opens with the words of Ward McAllister assertion that there were only Four Hundred people in. Henry while he served time for embezzlement in a penitentiary in Ohio. The Four Million is a collection of stories. While the results are necessarily inconclusive, some tentative conclusions are reached about how much O. The Four Million is the second book written by O. A final chapter attempts to assemble material for a compositional history of The Four Million. Henry singled out as a special influence, and Partlan's other work for Success magazine around the turn of the century.
This section focuses on "Among Themselves," the story O. Henry while he served time for embezzlement in a penitentiary in Ohio.
Henry said inspired him to write about the shopgirls of New York. The Four Million is the second book written by O. Another chapter examines the work of Anne Partlan, the writer that O.
One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by bringing together readings of McAllister's memoir, accounts of his career, and the secondary literature on O. Porter wrote over 400 short stories and they are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization, and the clever use of twist endings. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other.
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