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5. O. Henry - "Literary Stories (part 2)"
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Nicholas reads one of O. Henry's longest (and most unusual) stories, which happened to be a favorite of the author himself. "Roads of Destiny" is a kind of romantic-modernist triptych with three alternative story-lines following (roughly) the same cast of characters in Renaissance or early modern France.
We then discuss, considering this work as a kind of "road-not-taken" (i.e., O. Henry as an author of "serious" fiction), and also as an interesting experimental work in its own right.
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