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O. HenryA former ranchman, reduced to walking his wife’s hostile lapdog, meets an old friend who remembers his life in the West.
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O. HenryA former gang member gives his sweetheart luxurious furs that seem far beyond the reach of his honest wages.
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O. HenryA chance meeting in a city park lets two strangers imagine love beyond the boundaries of wealth and social rank.
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O. HenryA musical wanderer driven out of New Orleans finds a Christmas Eve welcome entangled with a robbery plot.
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O. HenryA distressed visitor tells an editor about a ruined marriage, then panics at the sound of a woman's voice.
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O. HenryA lonely baker imagines that a quiet customer is a struggling artist and finds a tender way to help him.
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O. HenryA broker presses a young woman for an answer, but a rival and another woman complicate his offer.
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O. HenryAn eloquent stranger tells how he lent his voice to a handsome friend's courtship, then wanted the woman for himself.
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O. HenryA neglected girl's attachment to a neighborhood tough raises a troubling question about where responsibility begins.
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O. HenryA Georgia editor's devotion to Southern pedigree clashes with a New York promoter's plan to save his magazine.
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O. HenryA bored millionaire offers a hat cleaner a new life, but the young man has his own idea of happiness.
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P. G. WodehouseAunt Agatha summons Bertie to a French resort and promotes a marriage he does not want, while Jeeves questions his holiday wardrobe.
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P. G. WodehouseWhen Bertie says he wants a house full of children, a stop at a girls’ school puts the idea to a test.
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P. G. WodehouseBingo's latest romance sends Bertie to his skeptical uncle, where an old impersonation threatens the marriage.
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P. G. WodehouseRosie plans to publish a private account of her marriage, and Bingo recruits Bertie to keep it out of print.
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P. G. WodehouseBingo falls for a revolutionary's daughter and joins her father's cause, even as he bets on a horse owned by his wealthy uncle.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie travels to New York to rescue his cousin from a vaudeville romance, only to find Gussie aiming for a spot onstage himself.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie's attempt to mend Freddie's broken engagement leaves him responsible for a stranger's child at the seaside.
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P. G. WodehouseOn his first week in Bertie's service, Jeeves faces a stolen manuscript, a demanding fiancée, and a check suit he cannot approve.
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P. G. WodehouseAunt Agatha asks Bertie to look after an English visitor in New York, then warns him to keep the young man away from the stage.
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P. G. WodehouseTo keep his allowance, Bicky must convince his miserly duke of an uncle that he's prospering in New York. Jeeves has an idea.
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P. G. WodehouseAunt Agatha wants Bertie to impress a Cabinet minister just as her son decides to punish the man for catching him smoking.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie agrees to house a sheltered young lord in New York, then discovers that the guest has plans his mother never imagined.
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P. G. WodehouseAt a Christmas house party, Bertie pursues Roberta, plots revenge on Tuppy, and tries to stay in Sir Roderick’s good graces.
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