O. Henry: (William Sidney Porter)Martin and Hoyt Company, 1921 - 1 pagine |
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Pagina 10
... World War , by the way , was a severe test to the popularity of writers , living and dead , American and European . It brought in a new audience , with new interests , with changed or changing ideals , with a refashioned outlook ...
... World War , by the way , was a severe test to the popularity of writers , living and dead , American and European . It brought in a new audience , with new interests , with changed or changing ideals , with a refashioned outlook ...
Pagina 12
... World and the Door a permanent contribution to the literature of humanitarian reform . For more than six months of this time he was a wanderer , " a fugitive from justice " -so the indictment runs - in Central and South America . The ...
... World and the Door a permanent contribution to the literature of humanitarian reform . For more than six months of this time he was a wanderer , " a fugitive from justice " -so the indictment runs - in Central and South America . The ...
Pagina 13
... World for a story a week . The price was a hundred dollars a story . The responsibility thus imposed , with all that it promised of release from need and un- certainty , was a challenge that evoked for the first time in his life every ...
... World for a story a week . The price was a hundred dollars a story . The responsibility thus imposed , with all that it promised of release from need and un- certainty , was a challenge that evoked for the first time in his life every ...
Pagina 14
... World is " to offer a cast - ironical welcome to the oppressed of other lands " ; for table - talk and fireside companions , sheep " rank along with five - o'clock teazers " ; if you know anything about the thief , " you are amiable to ...
... World is " to offer a cast - ironical welcome to the oppressed of other lands " ; for table - talk and fireside companions , sheep " rank along with five - o'clock teazers " ; if you know anything about the thief , " you are amiable to ...
Pagina 16
... world of grateful readers because , like the humor of Shakespeare and Molière and Cervantes , it rises naturally and spon- taneously from the situations in which his characters are placed . The situations become themselves creative ...
... world of grateful readers because , like the humor of Shakespeare and Molière and Cervantes , it rises naturally and spon- taneously from the situations in which his characters are placed . The situations become themselves creative ...
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