Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, credited to O. Henry, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry. Read in English by Warren Kati O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. Indeed, O. Henry is often credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, is a collection of twenty-three short stories that was first published in 1908. The setting is New York City in the first decade of the 1900’s (the Four Million in the subtitle is a reference to the population of the city at that time as well as to the title of an earlier collection of his short stories). You will meet a wide variety of characters from all walks of life who are trying to make a living via honest (and sometimes dishonest) means. Personal interactions and business transactions abound, but sometimes there is a twist. But don’t take it personally if you get fooled, after all it is Strictly Business. - Summary by Warren Kati

Recording facts

• Recording title: Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
• Author credits: O. Henry
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:44:56

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• O. Henry
• new york city
• early 1900's
• strictly business

Track guide

1. 01 - Strictly Business — 31:25
2. 02 - The Gold that Glittered — 22:15
3. 03 - Babes in the Jungle — 14:53
4. 04 - The Day Resurgent — 17:23
5. 05 - The Fifth Wheel — 30:03
6. 06 - The Poet and the Peasant — 16:12
7. 07 - The Robe of Peace — 12:40
8. 08 - The Girl and the Graft — 15:41
9. 09 - The Call of the Tame — 14:40
10. 10 - The Unknown Quantity — 15:28
11. 11 - The Thing's the Play — 20:50
12. 12 - A Ramble in Aphasia — 30:22
13. 13 - A Municipal Report — 44:38
14. 14 - Psyche and the Pskyscraper — 18:06
15. 15 - A Bird of Baghdad — 19:31
16. 16 - Compliments of the Season — 27:11
17. 17 - A Night in New Arabia — 36:44
18. 18 - The Girl and the Habit — 15:22
19. 19 - Proof of the Pudding — 24:27
20. 20 - Past One at Rooney's — 34:44
21. 21 - The Venturers — 33:01
22. 22 - The Duel — 14:17
23. 23 - "What You Want" — 15:03

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