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    One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays
    One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays
    One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays
    Audiobook37 minutes

    One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays

    Written by O. Henry and John Escott

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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    About this audiobook

    Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted from short stories written a hundred years ago by the great American storyteller O. Henry. Henry had his own difficulties with money and loneliness, and wrote from personal experience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Release dateDec 13, 2007
    ISBN9780194210225
    One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays
    Author

    O. Henry

    O. Henry (1862–1910) was the pseudonym of American author William Sidney Porter. Arrested for embezzlement in 1895, he escaped the police and fled to Honduras, where he wrote Cabbages and Kings (1904). On his return to the United States, he was caught, and served three years before being released. He became one of the most popular short story authors in history, known for his wit, surprise endings, and relatable, everyman characters.

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