《歐·亨利短篇小說選（插圖本）》收錄了歐·亨利的42篇經典短篇小說，包括《警察與贊美詩》、《麥琪的禮物》和《最後一片葉子》等。這些故事如此貼近生活，讓你以為就發生在自己身邊。可是，就在你忍不住對這種熟悉感感到厭倦之前，他又狠狠地拋出一個出人意料的結局，然後在你的目瞪口獃中揚長而去，隻留下你獨自思索，獨自流淚，獨自微笑。

歐·亨利（1862-1910），原名威廉·雪德尼·波特，美國著名批判現實主義作家，世界三大短篇小說大師之一，曾被評論界譽為曼哈頓桂冠散文作家和美國現代短篇小說之父。歐·亨利善於描寫美國社會尤其是紐約百姓的生活，他的作品構思新穎，語言詼諧，結局常常出人意料，被譽為“美國生活的幽默百科全書”。

歐·亨利是美國最傑出的短篇小說家之一，曾被評論界譽為曼哈頓桂冠散文作家和美國現代短篇小說之父。他的作品構思新穎，語言詼諧，結局總使人感到“既在情理之中，又在意料之外”；又因描寫了.眾多的人物，富於生活情趣，被譽為“美國生活的幽默百科全書”。歐·亨利對短篇小說的創作仍然具有驚人的持久影響。
——貝茨（英國短篇小說作家）

Chapter 1 The Gift of fhe Magi
Chapter 2 A Cosmopolife in a Cafe
Chapter 3 Between Rounds
Chapter 4 The Skylighf Room
Chapter 5 A Service of Love
Chapter 6 The Cop and fhe Anfhem
Chapter 7 Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
Chapter 8 The Lovo-Pbilfre of Ikey Schoensfein
Chapter 9 Mammon and fhe Archer
Chapter 10 Springfime a la Carlo
Chapter 11 From fhe Cabbys Seat
Chapter 12 An Unfinished Sfory
Chapter 13 The Romance of a Busy Broker
Chapter 14 The Furnished Room
Chapter 15 The Trimmed Lamp
Chapter 16 The Pendulum
Chapter 17 The Making of a Hew Yorker
Chapter 18 The Lost Blend
Chapter 19 A Harlem Tragedy
Chapter 20 The Lasf Leaf
Chapter 21 The Counf and the Wedding Guesf
Chapter 22 Jeff Parers as a Personal Magnef
Chapter 23 The Hand/hal Riles fhe World
Chapter 24 The Exacf Science of Mafrimony
Chapter 25 Conscience in Arf
Chapter 26 A Municipal Reporf
Chapter 27 Buried Treasure
Chapter 28 The Sleufhs
Chapter 29 Wifchcs" Loaves
Chapter 30 The Dup/icify of Hargraves
Chapter 31 Roads of Desfiny
Chapter 32 The Enchanfed Profile
Chapter 33 A DouWe-Dyed Deceiver
Chapter 34 The Passing of Black Eagle
Chapter 35 A Refrieved ReFormafion
Chapter 36 A Lickpenny Lover
Chapter 37 While fhe Aufo Waifs
Chapter 38 One Thousand Dollars
Chapter 39 "GIRL"
Chapter 40 A Technical Error
Chapter 41 A Blackjack Bargainer
Chapter 42 The Afavism of John Tom Liffla Bear

And now the dark-haired young man spoke to me， and it became evident that his mind also moved along its own set of grooves.
I should like to be a periwinkle， said he， mysteriously， on the top of a valley， and sing too-ralloo-ralloo.
This was clearly too obscure， so I turned again to Coglan.
Ive been around the world twelve times， said he. I know an Esqui-mau in Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati for his neckties， and I saw agoat-herder in Uruguay who won a prize in a Battle Creek breakfast-food puzzle competition. I pay rent on a room in Cairo， Egypt， and another in Yokohama all the year round. Ive got slippers waiting for me in a tea-house in Shanghai， and I dont have to tell em how to cook my eggs in Rio de Janeiro or Seattle. Its a mighty little old world. Whats the use of bragging about being from the North， or the South， or the old manor-house in the dale， or Euclid Avenue， Cleveland， or Pikes Peak， or Fairfax County， Va.， or Hooligans Flats or any place？ Itll be a better world when we quit being fools about some mildewed town or ten acres of swampland just because we happened to be born there.
You seem to be a genuine cosmopolite， I said admiringly. But it also seems that you would decry patriotism.
A relic of the stone age， declared Coglan warmly. We are all brothers——Chinamen， Englishmen， Zulus， Patagonians， and the people in the bend of the Kaw River. Some day all this petty pride in ones city or state or section or country will be wiped out， and well all be citizens of the world， as we ought to be.
But while you are wandering in foreign lands， I persisted， do notyour thoughts revert to some spot——some dear and——
Nary a spot， interrupted E. R. Cogl an flippantly. The terrestrial， globular， planetary hunk of matter， slightly flattened at the poles， and known as the Earth， is my abode. Ive met a good many object-bound citi-zens of this country abroad. Ive seen men from Chicago sit in a gondolain Venice on a moonlight night and brag about their drainage canal.