The Four Million

{{Short description|Collection of short stories by O. Henry}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | | name = The Four Million | title_orig = | translator = | image = TheFourMillion.png | publisher = McClure, Phillips & Co., New York | caption = | author = O. Henry | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | genre = Frame story, Short Stories | release_date = April 10, 1906 | media_type = Print (serial) | preceded_by = Cabbages and Kings | followed_by = Roads of Destiny }} {{listen |filename=Mammon and the Archer.ogg |title=Mammon and the Archer|description= "Mammon and the Archer" from the collection ''The Four Million'' by O. Henry, read by Marian Brown }} '''''The Four Million''''' is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released on April 10, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co. in New York. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. O. Henry was responding to a newspaper editorial by Ward McAllister, who claimed that there were only four hundred people in New York City worth knowing, by instead opining that ''every'' human being in New York is worthy of notice.<ref name="Learning"/>

==Contents== * "Tobin's Palm" *"The Gift of the Magi" *"A Cosmopolite in a Cafe" *"Between Rounds" *"The Skylight Room" *"A Service of Love" *"The Coming-Out of Maggie" *"Man About Town" *"The Cop and the Anthem" *"An Adjustment of Nature" *"Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" *"The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein" *"Mammon and the Archer" *"Springtime à la Carte" *"The Green Door" *"From the Cabby's Seat" *"An Unfinished Story" *"The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock" *"Sisters of the Golden Circle" *"The Romance of a Busy Broker" *"After Twenty Years" *"Lost on Dress Parade" *"By Courier" *"The Furnished Room" *"The Brief Debut of Tildy" thumb|1963 Airmont illustrated paperback edition.

==See also== * The Four Hundred (1892)

==References== <references> <ref name="Learning">{{cite book |title=A Study Guide for O. Henry's "After Twenty Years" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDq2DAAAQBAJ |publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-4103-3939-3}}</ref> </references>

==External links== *{{wikisource-inline|The Four Million|''The Four Million''}} *{{commons category-inline|The Four Million|''The Four Million''}} *Project Gutenberg {{gutenberg author|id=O._Henry|name=O. Henry}} * {{librivox book | title=The Four Million | author=O. HENRY}} * [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2776 ''The Four Million'' on Gutenberg]

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