The Furnished Room

Released: January 7, 2025
Length: 17 mins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Deadtree Publishing

William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, led a life marked by diverse experiences—from working in pharmacies and banks to facing personal tragedies and legal troubles. Despite setbacks, including imprisonment for embezzlement, he turned to writing during his time in prison, eventually becoming renowned for his prolific output of short stories. His compelling and often humorous tales earned him lasting recognition in the literary world before his death in 1910.

historical fiction literary fiction short stories

RecentAudiobook tracks O. Henry and over 137,000 other authors for new releases.

Follow the authors you love and hear about every new audiobook the day it lands.

Get started Browse authors

The Top 10 Short Stories - Loneliness

Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, H. P. Lovecraft, Nikolai Gogol, O. Henry, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Maxim Gorky, Nikolay Gogol

The Top 10 Short Stories - American Realism

Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Sherwood Anderson, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

The Greatest Female Writers Classics Collection

Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Josephine Tey, Mary Wilkins Freeman

Literary Treasures

Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Essential Classics: Volume 6

Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cover of The 20th Century Modern Classics Collection: 1900-1950 - 11 Stories From Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, & More

The 20th Century Modern Classics Collection: 1900-1950 - 11 Stories From Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, & More

Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Jack London, Franz Kafka, W. B. Yeats, George Orwell, Josephine Tey, D H Lawrence, F Scott Fitzgerald, W B Yeats

Cover of The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More

The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Edgar Allen Poe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert L Stevenson, Dr. Jonathan Swift

The Furnished Room