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The story describes the events which lead up to the reformation of an ex-convict. In 1910, dramatist Paul Armstrong adapted the story into a highly successful Broadway play under the title Alias Jimmy Valentine which ran 155 performances at Wallack's Theatre in New York.
Jimmy Valentine leaves prison and comes to Elmore, Arkansas, to rob a bank. Instead, he falls in love with the banker's daughter, runs a flourishing shoe store, and becomes a pillar in his new...
The protagonist of “A Retrieved Reformation,” Jimmy is a safecracker and thief living in the American Midwest in the early 1900s. When first introduced, the well-connected Jimmy is being released from prison after serving just ten months of a four-year sentence for robbery.
If Price were a police detective he would not be able to let Jimmy Valentine go free when he had caught him red-handed; but since Price is a private-eye he is not obligated to arrest Jimmy, whom he addresses as Mr. Spencer, pretending not to know his real identity.
Jimmy, looking like an athletic young senior just home from college, went down the board side-walk toward the hotel. A young lady crossed the street, passed him at the corner and entered a door over which was the sign, "The Elmore Bank." Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgot what he was, and became another man.
22 de jul. de 2016 · We present the short story "A Retrieved Reformation," by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. In the prison shoe-shop, Jimmy Valentine was ...
Jimmy Valentine is the protagonist of the short story "A Retrieved Reformation." He is an ex-convict safecracker who got out of his four-year prison sentence early due to criminal connections.
