O. Henry BiographyDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 258 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... beginning . There is interest , a bit of and a touch of distinction in the first para- suspense , graph ; but you cannot tell what lines of action are to be stressed , what complications of character and incident are to follow , or ...
... beginning . There is interest , a bit of and a touch of distinction in the first para- suspense , graph ; but you cannot tell what lines of action are to be stressed , what complications of character and incident are to follow , or ...
Pagina 6
... beginning , however , though we did not see it . But the greatest surprise and the happiest surprise is found in the last stage of O. Henry's life . This was his New York period , the culmination of tendencies and impulses that we now ...
... beginning , however , though we did not see it . But the greatest surprise and the happiest surprise is found in the last stage of O. Henry's life . This was his New York period , the culmination of tendencies and impulses that we now ...
Pagina 10
... beginning of his career . " " When I was a freshman in Harvard College , " writes Mr. John S. Reed in the American Magazine , " I stood one day looking into the window of a book- store on Harvard Square at a new volume of O. Henry . A ...
... beginning of his career . " " When I was a freshman in Harvard College , " writes Mr. John S. Reed in the American Magazine , " I stood one day looking into the window of a book- store on Harvard Square at a new volume of O. Henry . A ...
Pagina 16
... beginning to receive . O. Henry himself must have recognized the futility of attempting a further mystification , for there is evident in his later years a willingness and even a desire to throw off the mask of the assumed name and thus ...
... beginning to receive . O. Henry himself must have recognized the futility of attempting a further mystification , for there is evident in his later years a willingness and even a desire to throw off the mask of the assumed name and thus ...
Pagina 57
... beginning of the war Edgeworth enjoyed a growing and generous patronage from the South and West . The war converted Edgeworth into a hospital for both Confederate and Federal soldiers . As the build- ings were almost opposite the Porter ...
... beginning of the war Edgeworth enjoyed a growing and generous patronage from the South and West . The war converted Edgeworth into a hospital for both Confederate and Federal soldiers . As the build- ings were almost opposite the Porter ...
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Arthur Bartlett Maurice asked Austin became Bookman Bret Harte Cabbages and Kings called character Clark Porter's drug Columbus David Caldwell DEAR MARGARET death Dick Hall Doctor dollars drug clerk 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 memory Miss Lina mother never night North Carolina novel once play Porter's drug store prison Raggles ranch Red Hall Retrieved Reformation road Rolling Stone romance S. S. McClure says seemed 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 write written wrote York
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Pagina 206 - ... that architectural conception of work, which foresees the end in the beginning and never loses sight of it, and in every part is conscious of all the rest, till the -last sentence does but, with undiminished vigour, unfold and justify the first...
Pagina 200 - 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 232 - ... hour while you are 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 147 - 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 251 - There was a little dog and his name was Rover, and when he died, he died all over — and — when — he — died — he — died — all — over.
Pagina 209 - Laugh through my pane, then; solicit the bee; Gibe him, be sure ; and, in midst of thy glee, Love thy queen, worship me! — Worship whom else? For am I not, this day, Whate'er I please? What shall I please to-day? My morning, noon, eve, night — how spend my day ? To-morrow I must be Pippa who winds silk, The whole year round, to earn just bread and milk...
Pagina 77 - 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 11 - 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 65 - 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 189 - 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.
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