O. Henry: (William Sidney Porter)Martin and Hoyt Company, 1921 - 1 pagine |
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Pagina 13
... critic , 1 " was only one way of saying a thing . He had others equally efficient when he wanted , for he was a master , and not a servant , of words . For two years in Texas his favourite companion was a dictionary - which he studied ...
... critic , 1 " was only one way of saying a thing . He had others equally efficient when he wanted , for he was a master , and not a servant , of words . For two years in Texas his favourite companion was a dictionary - which he studied ...
Pagina 16
... critics , an element that is as distinctive as his humor . I mean the way in which he saturates his stories with the atmosphere of the background . The French call it milieu , the Germans stimmung , but O. Henry has added something to ...
... critics , an element that is as distinctive as his humor . I mean the way in which he saturates his stories with the atmosphere of the background . The French call it milieu , the Germans stimmung , but O. Henry has added something to ...
Pagina 16
... critic already quoted , 1 " he has probably never been sur- passed either in fertility or ingenuity . " But the critics have overlooked the art of O. Henry's beginnings . It is the masterly beginning that makes possible the masterly ...
... critic already quoted , 1 " he has probably never been sur- passed either in fertility or ingenuity . " But the critics have overlooked the art of O. Henry's beginnings . It is the masterly beginning that makes possible the masterly ...
Pagina 16
... critics com- plains because O. Henry " slaps his reader on the back and laughs loudly as if in a barroom . " O. Henry ... critic that he might as well ascribe roystering to Dante or rowdyism to Whittier as to lay them at O. Henry's door ...
... critics com- plains because O. Henry " slaps his reader on the back and laughs loudly as if in a barroom . " O. Henry ... critic that he might as well ascribe roystering to Dante or rowdyism to Whittier as to lay them at O. Henry's door ...
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... critic had elevated his eyebrows at her infantile entomologist . Piggy was to call for her at seven . While she swiftly makes ready , let us discretely face the other way and gossip . For the room , Dulcie paid two dollars per week . On ...
... critic had elevated his eyebrows at her infantile entomologist . Piggy was to call for her at seven . While she swiftly makes ready , let us discretely face the other way and gossip . For the room , Dulcie paid two dollars per week . On ...
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