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The Door of Unrest

O. Henry

First published May 1904
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The narrator is a newspaperman; one day, a man comes to his office and explains that he is the Wandering Jew. Actually, he turns out to be a shoemaker named Mike O'Bader. But when the newspaperman learns O'Bader's entire story, he thinks that the shoemaker chose an apt metaphor to describe himself.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1904 Cover The Cosmopolitan, May 1904 The Cosmopolitan Press MAGAZINE 91
February 1973 Cover Horrors in Hiding Berkley Medallion Anthology 145
March 1991 Cover Tales of the Wandering Jew Dedalus Anthology 154