Best Seller By O. Henry

O. Henry was an American short story writer and his stories are known for their surprise ending. His original name was William Sydney Porter who was better known by his pen-name O. Henry. He was born on 11th September in 1862 at Greensboro, US.

He died at the early age of 47 on 5th June 1910 at New York, US.

He was born to Dr. Sydney Porter, a physician and Mary Jane Porter, a homemaker.

Sydney Porter worked with a drug company as a pharmacist and moved on to work for 'Harrell Cigar Store' later. At that point of time he began writing and became famous for his wit, story-telling and musical talent. He worked for a humorous weekly called 'The Rolling Stone' and later on for Houston Post.

'Cabbages and Kings' was his first collection of stories followed by 'The Four Million'.

The story Best Seller deals with the life of a business worker of plate and glass company who believed that fictions were unrealistic and according to him a man always married a girl of the same background The story starts with the narrator traveling in a chair car While on his way to Pittsburgh for business purpose he noticed someone sitting next to him He remembered at once they were old acquaintances and met after two years His friend s name was John A Pescud John was reading a best seller The Rose Lady and Trevelyan Pescud was a travelling salesman and he believed that his commodities ...

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One day last summer the author was travelling to Pittsburg by chair car. What does he say about his co-passengers?
2.
Who was the passenger of chair No.9? What did he suddenly do?
3.
What was John A. Pescud's opinion about best sellers? Why?
4.
What does John say about himself since his last meeting with the narrator?
5.
How did John's first meeting with Jessie's father go? What did the John tell him?
6.
Why did John get off at Coketown?

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