BEST SELLER by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Two old friends meet on a train and one, a plate glass salesman from Pittsburgn, after criticizing the over-romanticized book he was reading, tells the story of how he met his new wife. It turns into a story very similar the one told in the book.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:30.0 | to one thousand one classic short stories and tales and one of our favorites 1,001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.3 | And one of our favorite authors here, O Henry. |
| 0:39.1 | This Classic Short Story is titled Best Seller. Part 1. One day last summer I went to Pittsburgh. Well I |
| 0:51.8 | had to go there on business. My chair car was |
| 0:55.3 | profitably well-fitted with people of the kind one usually sees on chair cars. |
| 1:01.0 | Most of them were ladies and brown silk dresses cut with square yolks with lace insertion and dotted |
| 1:07.4 | veils who refused to have the windows raised. |
| 1:12.4 | Then there was the usual number of men who looked as that they might be in |
| 1:15.5 | almost any business and going almost anywhere. Some students of human nature can |
| 1:21.1 | look at a man in a Pullman and tell you where he is from, his occupation, |
| 1:25.8 | and his stations in life, both flag and social. |
| 1:29.5 | But I never could. |
| 1:31.4 | The only way I can correctly judge a fellow traveler is when the train is held up by robbers or when he reaches at the same time I do for the last towel in the dressing room of the sleeper. |
| 1:42.0 | The porter came and brushed a collection of the with an air of apology. The temperature was 88. One of the dotted veiled ladies |
| 1:56.1 | demanded the closing of two more ventilators and spoke loudly of interlockin. |
| 2:01.8 | I leaned back idly in chair number 7 and look with the tepidous |
| 2:05.6 | curiosity at the small black bald spotted head just visible above the back of |
| 2:11.4 | number nine. |
| 2:14.0 | Suddenly, number nine hurled a book to the floor between his chair and the window. |
| 2:18.0 | And, looking, I saw that it was, The Rose Lady and Trevelyan, one of the best-selling novels of the present day. |
| 2:26.0 | And then the critic, or Philistine, whichever he was, veered his chair toward the window, |
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