O. Henry BiographyDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 258 pagine |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 32
Pagina 3
... though they loom large with signifi- cance in the retrospect . O. Henry was always unique . When as a freckle - faced boy , freckled even to the feet , he played his childish pranks on young and old and 3 THE LIFE AND THE STORY.
... though they loom large with signifi- cance in the retrospect . O. Henry was always unique . When as a freckle - faced boy , freckled even to the feet , he played his childish pranks on young and old and 3 THE LIFE AND THE STORY.
Pagina 4
Charles Alphonso Smith. he played his childish pranks on young and old and told his marvellous yarns of knightly adventure or Indian ambuscade , every father and mother and boy and girl felt that he was different from others of his kind ...
Charles Alphonso Smith. he played his childish pranks on young and old and told his marvellous yarns of knightly adventure or Indian ambuscade , every father and mother and boy and girl felt that he was different from others of his kind ...
Pagina 32
... play of color in her cheeks richer than the blush of the peach . She was quick of wit and a match for any would - be iconoclast who undertook to measure repartee with her . She was considerate of even her youngest cavalier and never ...
... play of color in her cheeks richer than the blush of the peach . She was quick of wit and a match for any would - be iconoclast who undertook to measure repartee with her . She was considerate of even her youngest cavalier and never ...
Pagina 56
... played an important rôle in the lives of O. Henry's parents , but after the buildings were burned the spacious lawn was to serve in a peculiar way as play- ground and dreamland for the son . Mr. Morehead attended David Caldwell's school ...
... played an important rôle in the lives of O. Henry's parents , but after the buildings were burned the spacious lawn was to serve in a peculiar way as play- ground and dreamland for the son . Mr. Morehead attended David Caldwell's school ...
Pagina 62
... played , whether the long - looked - for native American novelist who is to rival Dickens , and equal Thackeray , and yet imitate neither , has not been found . " " The book will rank , " said the Portland Advertiser , of Maine ...
... played , whether the long - looked - for native American novelist who is to rival Dickens , and equal Thackeray , and yet imitate neither , has not been found . " " The book will rank , " said the Portland Advertiser , of Maine ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
American short story Arthur Bartlett Maurice asked Austin became Bookman Bret Harte Cabbages and Kings called character Columbus David Caldwell DEAR MARGARET death Dick Hall dollars drug clerk drug store father friends girl Greens Greensboro Guilford County heard heart Henry Henry's hospital humour interest Jimmy Connors Judge Tourgee knew La Salle County later learned letter lived Lord Jim Magazine Maupassant memory Miss Lina mother never night North Carolina novel once play prison quiet Raggles ranch Red Hall Retrieved Reformation road Rolling Stone romance S. S. McClure says seemed sent Shirley shop-girl short story Sidney Porter sketches soon sort South Southern street tell Texas theme thing thought told town turned West William Swaim Willie Porter woman words Worth write written wrote York
Brani popolari
Pagina 198 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Pagina 145 - Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person — this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest ? Those striving with unreasonable forces know it well — the shipwrecked castaways in boats, wanderers lost in a desert, men battling against the unthinking might of nature, or the stupid brutality of crowds.
Pagina 205 - Much like a subtle spider which doth sit, In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide ; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.
Pagina 75 - She had been educated at home, and her knowledge of the world was derived from inference and by inspiration. Of such is the precious, small group of essayists made. While she talked to me I kept brushing my fingers, trying, unconsciously, to rid them guiltily of the absent dust from the half-calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, Hazlitt, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, and Hood. She was exquisite, she was a valuable discovery. Nearly everybody nowadays knows too much — oh, so much too much — of real life.
Pagina 9 - I'm afraid to go home in the dark." That was in the summer of 1910. Since his death, his fame in America has grown greater and greater with every year. The laurel wreath that should have crowned his brow is exchanged for the garland laid upon his grave. And the time is coming, let us hope, when the whole English-speaking world will recognize in O. Henry one of the great masters of modern literature.
Pagina 230 - ... thinking of your coal bills and heavy underwear. But as soon as they come to mistake your silence for conviction, madness comes upon them, and they picture the city of the Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and , Eve descended), it is a rash one who will lay his finger on the — "" '< , . / map and say: "In this town there can be no romance — what could happen here?
Pagina 63 - Yet it was a magnificent sentiment that underlay it all, — an unfaltering determination, an invincible defiance to all that had the seeming of compulsion or tyranny. One can not but regard with pride and sympathy the indomitable men, who, being conquered in war, yet resisted every effort of the conqueror to change their laws, their customs, or even the personnel of their ruling class; and this, too, not only with unyielding stubbornness, but with success. One can not...
Pagina 187 - It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way; or if it be not an incident I think it will be hard to say what it is. At the same time it is an expression of character.
Pagina 31 - DOWN South whenever any one perpetrates some particularly monumental piece of foolishness everybody says: "Send for Jesse Holmes." Jesse Holmes is the Fool-Killer. Of course he is a myth, like Santa Claus and Jack Frost and General Prosperity and all those concrete conceptions that are supposed to represent an idea that Nature has failed to embody. The wisest of the Southrons cannot tell you whence comes the Fool-Killer's name ; but few and happy are the households...
Riferimenti a questo libro
Short Fiction Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of Stories ... Jarvis Thurston Anteprima non disponibile - 1960 |
Short Fiction Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of Stories ... Jarvis Thurston Anteprima non disponibile - 1960 |