Kings and cabbage. The roads of fate. O.Henry

The famous American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) is the author of popular short stories, a master of original plot turns, colorful dialogues and stunning interchanges. The writer's creative heritage is over six hundred novels, which are something like a humorous encyclopedia of American life in the early twentieth century. However, O. Henry sketches answer the best possible and what we observe in modern life. Unusually entertaining and witty, the stories of O. Henry are still a living classic...

The famous story “Kings and Cabbage”, consisting of adventurous-humorous novels, whose action takes place in Latin America, as well as also Two copyright collections in full force: “burning lamp” and “roads of fate”. Many stories are presented in new translations. The publication is accompanied by rare illustrations of the wonderful Soviet artist Grigory Filippovsky (1909–1987), as well as drawings from the American publications of the first half of the 20th century.