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A Retrieved Reformation (short story)

  • Type: Short Story
  • Length: 13 pages

A Retrieved Reformation is cracking good short story by William Sydney Porter published under the pen name, O Henry. - AsNotedIn

In the prision shoe-shop, Jimmy Valentine was busily at work making shoes. A prison officer came into the shop, and led Jimmy to the prison office. There Jimmy was given an important paper. It said that he was free.
O Henry, A Retrieved Reformation




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A Retrieved Reformation (short story)
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  • Daviess County, IN, One afternoon Jimmy Valentine and his bag arrived in a small town named Elmore.
  • Logansport, IN, Indiana Two weeks after that, a safe in Logansport was opened. It was a new kind of safe, it had been made, they said, so strong that no one could break it open. But someone did, and took fifteen hundred dollars.
  • Richmond, IN, Indiana A week after Valentine, 9762, left the prison, a safe was broken open in Richmond, Indiana. No one knew who did it. Eight hundred dollars were taken.

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Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1903/04/00 William Sydney Porter Author O Henry's "A Retrieved Reformation" is published in The Cosmopolitan Magazine.
1903/04/00 Cosmopolitan magazine Publisher O Henry's "A Retrieved Reformation" is published in The Cosmopolitan Magazine.

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Particulars for A Retrieved Reformation (short story):
Person Attribute Ex-Convict
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Crime Safecracker one who forces open a safe, typically a criminal without either the combination or the key
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction

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Original Language: English



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