In the story ‘Best Seller’, O. Henry, American short-story writer, exposes the hypocrisy of a travelling salesman, who criticises popular romantic novels but reads them all the same.

Acquaintance renewed
The narrator begins his tale seated in the chair car of a train. He is on his way to Pittsburgh on a business trip. He looks curiously at a small, balding head that shows up above one of the seats. Soon, this man throws a book titled ‘The Rose Lady and T…