Extractions: Life is made of s o b s sniffles, and smiles , with s ni f f l e s predominating." ~ O. Henry The creator of a good story, writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), was born on this day in Greensboro, North Carolina, is better known as "the master of the short story," O. Henry. His early jobs as a pharmacist, ranch hand, and bank teller inspired the creation of his poor, working-class characters. "A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it," he said. His stories are known for their sentimentality and ironic twists. An economical writer , O. Henry set the stage for his characters immediately in a tightly-constructed plot, then he moved quickly from introduction to surprise ending. In one of his most popular tales, The Gift of the Magi , a story about true love and the true spirit of giving . O. Henry used a folksy narrator to tell the tale of Della and Jim Young. Both sacrifice their most precious belonging to buy each other a Yuletide gift. Della cuts her glorious hair to buy Jim a watch chain for the heirloom watch he has hocked to buy Della combs. Classic O. Henry, with a witty, satisfying
Cambridge Book Review that the writer O. Henry (aka William Sydney Porter, 18621910) would have less Edmund Wilson s 1924 dismissal of O. Henry as a clever journalist http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/o.henry.html
Extractions: If it weren't for the prestigious short story award named for him, chances are that the writer O. Henry (a.k.a. William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910) would have less recognition than he enjoys today. Serious literary critics have rarely paid him much heed. Edmund Wilson's 1924 dismissal of O. Henry as a "clever journalist" probably still reflects a consensus of sorts. You won't find the writer mentioned anywhere in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon , for example, although you'll find Saki and Maupaussant, both of whom O. Henry has met favorable comparison with over the years. Is it a peculiarly American form of highbrow snobbery that stigmatizes journalists turned fiction writers? Damon Runyon, John O'Hara, and more recently Tom Wolfe, have all unfairly suffered in one form or another the condescending label of "clever journalist." Like O. Henry, they are unapologetically mainstream authors whose work has emphasized traditional storytelling elements such as plot and character over, say, structural complexity and philosophical musing. Their writing often expresses a canny awareness of gender and class conflict through social satire and irony. Popular culture is the real beneficiary here. Runyon's work was the basis for Guys and Dolls . O'Hara's steamy bestsellers brought notable film roles for Elizabeth Taylor (
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Extractions: AUTHOR NAME A-C AUTHORS ACHEBE, CHINUA (ALBERT) 1930- ADAMS, HENRY (BROOKS) 1838-1918 AGEE, JAMES 1909-1955 ALLENDE, ISABEL AMIS, KINGSLEY, 1922- ANAYA, RUDOLFO 1937- ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN, 1805-1875 ANDERSON, SHERWOOD, 1876-1941 ANGELOU, MAYA, 1928- ANTIGONE 441?B.C ARISTOPHANES 448?-385 B.C. ARISTOTLE 384-322 B.C. ARNOLD, MATTHEW, 1822-1888 ASIMOV, ISAAC 1920-1992 ATWOOD, MARGARET, 1939- AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS, 1917- AUDEN, H.W. (HUGH WYNSTAN) 1907-1973 AUSTEN, JANE, 1775-1817 AUTHORS, AFRICAN AUTHORS, AMERICAN AUTHORS, FRENCH AUTHORS, RUSSIAN BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924- BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES PIERRE, 1821-1867 BEAUVOIR, SIMON DE, 1908- BECKETT, SAMUEL, 1906- BELLOW, SAUL, 1915- BENNETT, ALAN 1934- BETTS, DORIS, 1932- BIERCE, AMBROSE, 1842-1914 BISHOP, ELIZABETH, 1911-1979 BLACK AUTHORS BLAIR, ERIC (ARTHUR) 1903-1950 (ORWELL, GEORGE) BLAKE, WILLIAM, 1757-1827 BLUME, JUDY BOELL, HEINRICH, 1917-1985 BORGES, JORGE LOUIS, 1899-1986 BRAUN, LILLIAN JACKSON 1916-
Extractions: Henry David Thoreau Thoreau's advice seems particularly applicable to today's world where the proliferation of all forms of literary material creates a dilemma for the person attempting to choose something to read. With this advice in mind, the Network Services Section has produced a series of three minibibliographies listing the best of American fiction. This first minibibliography of the series lists fiction of America's early period, particularly of the mid-to-late- nineteenth century when the American novel came of age. American writers had finally freed themselves from imitating the themes and characterizations of the English and established their own literary form with two great masterpieces: Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. From these novels, American literature moved on to the social and political satire of Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn and the new realism of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris. Books chosen for this minibibliography are based upon the recommendations offered in Good Reading, edited by J. Sherwood Weber; The Reader's Advisor, 12th edition, volume 1; "Darien's First 'Classics' Collection," from Library Journal, November 15, 1981; and American Novel, Brown to James, edited by Frank N. Magill.
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Extractions: by O. Henry Double-click on any word on this page to get its definition from Cambridge Online Dictionaries . The definition will open in a new window According to The Literature Network Read the story and then do an activity . If you want, see a biography of O. Henry. Finally, do some writing yourself. Calloway's code The New York Enterprise sent H. B. Calloway as special correspondent to the Russo-Japanese-Portsmouth war. For two months Calloway hung about Yokohama and Tokio, shaking dice with the other correspondents for drinks of rickshaws - oh, no, that's something to ride in; anyhow, he wasn't earning the salary that his paper was paying him. But that was not Calloway's fault. The little brown men who held the strings of Fate between their fingers were not ready for the readers of the Enterprise to season their breakfast bacon and eggs with the battles of the descendants of the gods. But soon the column of correspondents that were to go out with the First Army tightened their field-glass belts and went down to the Yalu with Kuroki. Calloway was one of these.
The Gift Of The Magi - O Henry (W S Porter) The Gift Of The Magi. by. O Henry (WS Porter; 18621910) At 7 o clock thecoffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/gsr/giftmagi.htm
Extractions: One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. There was a pierglass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pierglass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.
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Extractions: Review by Bob Wake Because his corpus is comprised entirely of brief punchy tales, O. Henry is uniquely suited to Pomplun's format, which in the current instance lets loose some seventeen diverse illustrators and comic book artists, all of whom appear to be having a rollicking good time interpreting the well-chosen material at hand. Worth special mention are Mark A. Nelson's dynamic illustrations for "The Caballero's Way," a Western melodrama featuring the wily and surprisingly cold-blooded Cisco Kid. The story is visualized with explosive Peckinpah-like violence and a gritty realism that takes the narrative to another level altogether. O. Henry's funniest and most famous tale, "The Ransom of Red Chief," is nearly the equal of Mark Twain in its sardonic depiction of a bratty ten-year-old boy terrorizing a pair of hapless kidnappers ("the kid had the knife we used for slicing bacon, and he was attempting to take Bill's scalp"). The story receives a gloriously cheeky rendering from artist Johnny Ryan. For a slightly more disquieting and even demonic view of the story's central character, check out the cover illustration by Esao Andrews. The collaborative match-up of highly personalized pictorial styles with each story gives Graphic Classics their charm and variety. It's a successful formula that Pomplun seems to wield with increasing confidence in each successive volume. So thoroughly has he immersed himself in O. Henry's world that Pomplun has taken the daring and ambitious step of penning (with horror writer Mort Castle) a sequel to one of the author's better-known New York tales, "A Madison Square Arabian Night." Titled "The Eye of the Beholder," it imagines an elaborate surprise-laden backstory for secondary characters whose roles were left intriguingly vague in O. Henry's earlier piece. Pomplun and Castle, together with artist Stanley W. Shaw, invent a very clever and credible pastiche cum homage replete with high society con men and a femme fatale.
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Extractions: " It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. " O. Henry quotes Similar Quotes . About: New York quotes Add to my book show_bar(264796,null,'it_couldn-t_have_happened_anywhere_but_in_little') " It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are. " O. Henry quotes Add to my book show_bar(264799,null,'it_was_beautiful_and_simple_as_all_truly_great') " If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. " O. Henry quotes Add to my book show_bar(264800,null,'if_men_knew_how_women_pass_the_time_when_they_are') " Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way. " O. Henry quotes Add to my book show_bar(329316,null,'whenever_he_saw_a_dollar_in_another_man-s_hands') "
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Extractions: Especially when you are young, short stories seem like they should have some tremendous payoff at the end, if for no other reason than to justify their very brevity. Or perhaps that is simply a function of the fact that we all grow up reading the great tales of O. Henry. And of all those stories and of all those shocking payoffs, there is perhaps no other twist quite like the one at the end of Gift of the Magi. Jim and Della Young are a wretchedly poor young married couple. Della has just $1.87 to buy a Christmas gift for Jim and between them they have precious little of any value: Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a
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Extractions: Nalanda Digital Library , as a part of its E-text Conversion Project (ECP ,has converted his writings into 'pdf' format for easy reading on the reading console. You can find the list here Profile: Prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Typical for O. Henry's stories is a twist of plot which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance. Although some critics were not so enthusiastic about his work, the public loved it. "It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are." William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and a paternal aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left the school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1882, he married. In 1884 Porter started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. It was at this time that he began the heavy drinking. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. In 1894 cash was found to have gone missing from the bank and O. Henry fled to Honduras. He returned to Austin the next year because his wife was dying. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling bank fund, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. In 1898 he entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.
Collected Memorabilia Of William Sidney Porter William Sidney Porter (18621910), better know by his pseudonym O. Henry. 27, O. Henry letters to Colonel William Griffith (transcripts) http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/porter/
Extractions: Range of Collection Dates Size : 0.8 linear feet (2 archive boxes, 1 oversize folder) Photocopying, literary rights, and citation William Sidney Porter was born 11 September 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the son of Algernon Sidney and Mary Jane Virginia (Swaim) Porter. (In 1898 Porter would change the spelling of his middle name to Sydney, and later still he would adopt the literary pseudonym "O. Henry.") His first job after leaving school was as a pharmacist's assistant in his hometown (1877-1882). In 1882 he went to Texas, and after work at various types of jobsincluding as a teller in an Austin bank (1891-1894)he started a short-lived humorous weekly, The Rolling Stone (1894-1895), and wrote a daily column for the Houston paper
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Extractions: format this article to print PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY In La Salle County, Jesse Leigh Hall, qv a retired Texas Ranger, managed the ranch holdings of the Dull brothers from Pennsylvania. Porter lived on this ranch for two years with Betty and Richard Moore Hall. qv Mrs. Hall was a well-educated woman and had a library that Porter used during these years. While he herded sheep for Dick Hall, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion. During his two years on the ranch, Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into many of his short stories. Lee Hall was Porter's prototype for the Texas Ranger who appears in many of the Texas stories. In 1884 the Halls moved to a new ranch in Williamson County, and Porter moved to Austin and lived as a house guest of the Joseph Harrell family for three years. During this time he worked at several jobs and was active in Austin social life. For a time he was a member of the Hill City Quartette. During this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling "Oh, Henry" to the family cat. In 1887 Porter began working as a draftsman in the General Land Office
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Extractions: What's this? Bio: William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910, American short-story writer, b. Greensboro, N.C. He went to Texas in 1882 and worked at various jobsas teller in an Austin bank (1891-94) and as a newspaperman for the Houston Post . In 1898 an unexplained shortage in the Austin bank was charged to him. Although many people believed him innocent, he fled to Honduras, but returned to be with his fatally ill wife. He eventually served three years in prison, where he first started writing short stories. Upon his release he changed his name to O. Henry and settled in New York City, becoming a highly successful and prolific contributor to various magazines. His short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. O. Henry caught the color and movement of the city and evidenced a genuine sympathy for ordinary people. His approximately 300 stories are collected in Cabbages and Kings The Four Million The Voice of the City Options (1909), and others.
