Here are some web - sites where one can read  facts of biography and literary works by this outstanding   American writer!

• http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/
• http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/
• http://www.readbookonline.net/stories/Henry/108/

   William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.
   In his day, he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Both authors wrote plot twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful. His stories are also known for witty narration.
Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc.
    O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.
 

Write what you like. There is no other rule. (O. Henry)

Finally I'm here...)) It was a little bit puzzling to get on this site, but I succeeded to do that. Stylistics is actually one of the first disciplines which are going to be checked on-line. I hope that it will be interesting and not quite complicated to read the suggested literature...and analyze it )