## Colophon

Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories written between 1883 and 1910 by
O. Henry.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Vince Rice,
and is based on transcriptions produced by
Joseph E. Lowenstein, Charles Franks, Greg Weeks, John Bickers, Dagny, Earl C. Beach, Glynn Burleson, Jim Tinsley, Tim O’Connell, Vince Rice, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg (Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, The Trimmed Lamp, Heart of the West, The Gentle Grafter, Voice of the City, Roads of Destiny, Options, Strictly Business, Whirligigs, Sixes and Sevens, Rolling Stones, and Waifs and Strays)
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, The Trimmed Lamp, Heart of the West, The Gentle Grafter, Voice of the City, Roads of Destiny, Options, Strictly Business, Whirligigs, Sixes and Sevens, Rolling Stones, Waifs and Strays, O Henryana, Postscripts, A Christmas Pi), the
HathiTrust Digital Library (O. Henry Encore), and
Google Books (The Lotus and the Cockleburrs).

The cover page is adapted from
The Soul of the Soulless City,
a painting completed in 1920 by
Christopher R. W. Nevinson.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

The first edition of this ebook was released on
March 23, 2020, 11:34 p.m.
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