## Colophon

Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories written between 1883 and 1910 by
O. Henry.

This ebook was produced for the
Standard Ebooks project
by
Vince Rice,
and is based on transcriptions produced by
Joseph E. Lowenstein, Charles Franks, Greg Weeks
John Bickers, Dagny, Earl C. Beach
Glynn Burleson, Jim Tinsley, Tim O’Connell
and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
The Soul of the Soulless City,
a painting completed in 1920 by
Christopher R. W. Nevinson.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

The first edition of this ebook was released on
January 1, 1900, 12:00 a.m.
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