A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York. Intro -- Introduction -- Further...
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A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York. Intro -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Contents -- 100 Selected Stories -- The Gift of the Magi -- A Cosmopolite in a Café -- Between Rounds -- The Skylight Room -- A Service of Love -- The Coming-out of Maggie -- The Cop and the Anthem -- Memoirs of a Yellow Dog -- The Love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- Mammon and the Archer -- Springtime à la Carte -- From the Cabby's Seat -- An Unfinished Story -- Sisters of the Golden Circle -- The Romance of a Busy Broker -- The Furnished Room -- The Brief Debut of Tildy -- Hearts and Crosses -- Telemachus, Friend -- The Handbook of Hymen -- The Trimmed Lamp -- The Pendulum -- The Assessor of Success -- The Buyer from Cactus City -- The Badge of Policeman O'Roon -- Brickdust Row -- The Making of a New Yorker -- Vanity and some Sables -- The Social Triangle -- The Lost Blend -- A Harlem Tragedy -- 'The Guilty Party' -- The Last Leaf -- The Count and the Wedding Guest -- The Tale of a Tainted Tenner -- Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet -- The Hand that Riles the World -- The Exact Science of Matrimony -- Conscience in Art -- The Man Higher Up -- A Tempered Wind -- Hostages to Momus -- The Ethics of Pig -- Strictly Business -- The Day Resurgent -- The Fifth Wheel -- The Poet and the Peasant -- The Thing's the Play -- A Ramble in Aphasia -- A Municipal Report -- Compliments of the Season -- Proof of the Pudding -- Past One at Rooney's -- 'The Rose of Dixie' -- The Third Ingredient -- Thimble, Thimble -- Buried Treasure -- The Moment of Victory -- The Head-Hunter -- The Last of the Troubadours -- The Sleuths -- Witches' Loaves -- Holding up a Train -- Ulysses and the Dogman -- At Arms with Morpheus -- A Ghost of a Chance -- Jimmy Hayes and Muriel -- The Door of Unrest -- The Duplicity of Hargraves -- Let me Feel Your Pulse -- Law and Order -- The Transformation of Martin Burney -- Roads of Destiny.
