Sixes and Sevens (Annotated)

Published posthumously in 1920, *Sixes and Sevens* gathers thirty-five stories by O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, and displays the range of the author's celebrated short fiction. Its narratives move through New York apartments, theatrical circles, the American West, and other socially varied settings, where coincidence, disguise, economic hardship, and romantic hope shape the plot...