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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and AFTER 20 YEARS by O'HENRY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Two great short stories from O'Henry- both about New York City around 1912.  These stories provide an excellent insight to the way life was in the melting pot we know to be New York City- where people from every background and social strata learned to get along- and stories abounded. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to. The Oh, Few people wrote about New York City at the turn of the last century like O'Henry.

0:53.0

Everything was a mixture of old and new,

0:56.0

from horse-drawn cabs and gas lights in the parks

0:59.0

to cafes and all-night lunch counters using electric lights

1:02.0

and sporting wall-mounted

1:03.6

telephones in the bag. There were millionaires and bums, Irish cops, up-and-comings,

1:09.6

and down-and-outs. In a city of millions, even then.

1:13.8

Tonight we share two O'Henry short stories

1:15.9

you're sure to enjoy.

1:17.7

And how times have changed.

1:19.8

Look for these lines in the upcoming story. When I first read them I broke out laughing. It's classic

1:26.3

Oh Henry. Now t'was a peaceful and happy home that all of us had in them same bersheba

1:31.6

flats. The Odowds and the Steinowitches, and the Callahan's

1:35.6

and the Coans, and the Spizinelli's and the MacManuses, and the Spiegel-Myers and the Joneses,

1:41.6

all nations of us. We lived like one big family together.

1:45.0

And when the hot nights came along, we kept a line of children reaching from our front door to

1:50.0

Kelly's on the corner, passing along the cans of beer from one to another without the trouble of running after it.

1:57.0

Oh, I love it. Classic O Henry

2:00.6

The City of Dreadful Night by O'Henry

2:04.0

During the recent Warmed Over spell, said my friend Carney, driver of Express Wagon

2:10.5

number 8608, a good many opportunities was had of observing human nature through

2:15.8

peek-a-boo wastes. The Park Commissioner and the Commissioner of Police and the Forestry

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