"The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry. The story was featured in The Junior Munsey, February 1902, and republished in the volume Sixes and Sevens (1911). The story features Major Pendelton Talbot, a romanticized figure representing the antebellum South.
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The Duplicity of Hargraves was adapted into a 1917 film.
The Duplicity of Hargraves1917 · film · dir. Thomas R. Mills · IMDb ↗Old Major Pendleton Talbot of Mobile moves with his daughter Lydia to Washington, D.C., where he works on his book of reminiscences about Alabama, while Lydia scrimps to keep up appearances. Although the young government clerks ri...