| 单词 | O. Henry |
| 例句 | But it ends with a twist worthy of O. Henry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were like gorgeous art-directed dreams, some of them tone poems, others tightly crafted stories with O. Henry endings. Review: ‘High Maintenance,’ Hipster Anthology, Reconjured on HBO 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z There's a fable-like quality to the way the author juxtaposes darkness and light in "The Night Alive," which resembles at times a short story by O. Henry, indebted to Dickens and with biblical overtones. Reaching toward the light in 'The Night Alive' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The series' latest installment, issued last week, is a Christmas episode that begins with a touching nod to O. Henry. TV Picks: 'The Salinas Project,' 'Notary Publix,' 'The Other One' 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Unlike "Manly," "Chainsaw Richard" reaches the end of its story arc, with a little O. Henry twist, and stands alone quite nicely. TV Picks: 'Altman,' 'Poirot,' Cartoon Hangover shorts, 'The Killing' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z I thought it was like an O. Henry story. Oscar live-action short film spotlight: From voyeurism to a donkey with headphones 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Its tone is quietly comical, with each chapter treated as an extended joke, or as an R-rated O. Henry story angling toward a neat concluding twist. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z One of the book's stories, "Homecoming," earns him an O. Henry Award for one of the best American short stories of the year. Key dates in the life and work of Ray Bradbury 2012-06-06T18:58:09Z He was going to go all O. Henry and sell the tool of his trade, like a samurai warrior trading in his sword for a cheap blade and a jug of sake. Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The tour explores the 19th-century remnants that once served as inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry. Spare Times for July 31-Aug. 6 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z One of the minders stuck with Cherry calls her “Princess Red Bull,” an apt reference to O. Henry’s “Ransom of Red Chief.” Books of The Times: How to Handle a Pop Star in Carl Hiaasen?s ?Star Island? 2010-07-20T22:00:00Z I first realized there was more to O. Henry than surprise endings when, a few years ago, I picked up a Penguin edition of the writer’s selected stories edited by Guy Davenport. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “She started me on Nancy Drew once we had the basics. Then she moved me on to O. Henry.” Julie Garwood, Best-Selling Romance Novelist, Dies at 78 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The Cisco Kid was created as a villain in 1907 by author O. Henry but was later repurposed as a sort of Tex-Mex Robin Hood. Review | In the galleries: Ghostly presences at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Who needs tediously believable situations, O. Henry endings or even truthfulness to life? Book review: Kelly Link’s fantastic, fantastical ‘Get in Trouble’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The O. Henry booth is not far from the entrance, just to the right. Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Both these mini-classics are perfectly executed, but as this new Library of America volume, “O. Henry: 100 Stories,” edited by Ben Yagoda, demonstrates again and again, there are many others just as good. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Holiday hazards of the moment include a scorched “Christmas Carol” and an undercooked hipster-y folk rock take on O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” First-rate ‘Second Shepherd’s Play’ tops the Christmas class 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Mantel is not above constructing a story around a punch line, a pun, an O. Henry twist. Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Bundy sends Rule a Christmas card with a synopsis of her favorite O. Henry story. Too Close to Ted Bundy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z From the Chelsea Hotel to the Strand, a writer takes a tour through literary New York — home of luminaries like Dorothy Parker, Dylan Thomas, Leonard Cohen, O. Henry, and more. Soaking up Manhattan’s literary history: A book lover’s bar-hopping guide 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z King wrote two musicals, five plays, 14 books, a few screenplays and hundreds of magazine articles, for which he won an O. Henry Award in 2001. Author, ‘Whorehouse’ Playwright Larry L. King Dies 2012-12-21T15:05:08Z Another early story, “The Sorrows of Captain Schreiber,” won an O. Henry award as one of the best short stories of 1954. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z Serling himself was influenced by American author O. Henry, famous for his startling conclusions. Twenty years after ‘The Sixth Sense,’ M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t given up on twist endings 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Here, for O. Henry, coincidence is a means to an ending that’s haunted by the lives of its desperate, impoverished characters. Review: ‘Wild Tales’ Explores the Blurred Limits of Morality 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z A framed letter in which O. Henry — whose real name was William Sydney Porter — claims that he wrote it there in 1905 hangs in the very booth in which he said he worked. Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z There is another epiphany in “Village 113,” a winner of the O. Henry Prize. Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr?s ?Memory Wall,? Fleeting Yesterdays 2010-07-28T22:07:00Z Given that Ben Yagoda’s excellent selection — emphasizing stories set in New York — reprints only two-fifths of O. Henry’s total work, it’s not surprising that some famous stories have been left out. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Through coincidences more in line with an O. Henry story than “The Grapes of Wrath,” the cat and his palate will leave everyone satisfied. Rare Steinbeck story, set in Paris, published this week 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z In his introduction, Davenport — an essayist of the most sophisticated literary intelligence — noted that O. Henry’s reputation has long stood extremely high in Europe. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Still, the absence of this trio from the Library of America volume isn’t grievous but is simply an encouragement to acquire one or two additional O. Henry collections. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The story won an O. Henry Award, and Thom went on to publish several more stories in The New Yorker. Postscript: Thom Jones 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “The Pugilist at Rest” won the prestigious O. Henry Award and became the title of Mr. Jones’s first collection, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Thom Jones, onetime janitor who shone as a literary star in the 1990s, dies at 71 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z He says the story was inspired by “The Gift of the Magi,” the O. Henry short story about a young poor couple. Burt Bacharach, Steven Sater album attracts Broadway stars 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z It was O. Henry who coined the term “Banana republic.” King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z Her new collection contains six substantial stories, one of which won an O. Henry Award. Perspective | What books to read this fall 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z We might call this a twist upon a twist, in the style of O. Henry, or better yet of Saki, whose writing Dahl’s sometimes recalls. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z You don’t have to be a bibliophile to appreciate a visit to Pete’s Tavern in Gramercy Park, where O. Henry said he wrote the classic Christmas short story “The Gift of the Magi.” Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Joyce was an award-winning writer, recipient of multiple British Fantasy Awards, an O. Henry Prize and the World Fantasy Award for "Some Kind of Fairy Tale," published in the U.S. in 2012. Award-winning fantasy novelist Graham Joyce has died at 59 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z He has also earned numerous awards including the PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, a Grammy, and an O. Henry Award. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s not unmoving, exactly, but all a little synthetic — less like a vintage Roth narrative than like a very well-executed O. Henry story, complete with a deliberately ironic plot twist and a sentimental outcome. Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z There are many surprises delivered in the Coen brothers’ existential western anthology, whose six separate stories — unrelated except for a shared theme of human mortality — include two with twist endings worthy of O. Henry. The 10 biggest movie surprises of 2018, from Melissa McCarthy to ‘Mowgli’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z In the title story, which won an O. Henry Award, an artist with painter’s block is invited to stay at a rich couple’s ritzy vacation compound, in an unnamed, impoverished country. Review | ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’ isn’t exactly political, but it eerily captures our national mood 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Even though O. Henry revels in puns and wordplay, period slang and colorful rhetorical exaggeration, he keeps his narrative voice intimate and confiding. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “It was like some O. Henry short story: We got what we wanted, a quote-unquote pro-life president and this was not what I wanted,” she recalled earlier this year. Antiabortion advocate worked for years to overturn Roe, but worries over next steps 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Like O. Henry, Brown regularly employed surprise endings throughout his work. Review | Fredric Brown’s ‘The Fabulous Clipjoint’ is an ingenious mystery 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, Hall was compared as often to famed short story writers as he was to his fellow tunesmiths: Rock critic Robert Christgau called him “a cross between Chekhov and O. Henry.” Appreciation: From wry and worldly to warm and welcoming, Tom T. Hall was a songwriter's songwriter 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z His work followed in the footsteps of many great Texas writers, including J. Frank Dobie and O. Henry, and there are a host of great Texas writers to follow in McMurtry’s footsteps. Editorial Roundup: Texas 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z She won acclaim for her poems and short stories such as “Big Blonde,” which won her the O. Henry Award for the best story of 1929. Talks underway to move ashes of writer Dorothy Parker out of Baltimore 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z He’s also a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 winner, the recipient of an O. Henry Award and the 2019 winner of the 13th annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Houston writer Bryan Washington to receive Gaines award 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Festival of Carols Composer Eric Whitacre conducts the Los Angeles Master Chorale in sacred and secular favorites, plus the world premiere of “The Gift of the Magi,” Whitacre’s setting of O. Henry’s classic tale. Classical music in L.A. this week: Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Handel's Messiah and more 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z The gift of rescue is so appreciated by the weak Asian woman that she will do the most O. Henry of things, kill herself in gratitude for having had her life saved. Opinion | Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z In a twist worthy of an O. Henry story — or possibly a classic Greek tragedy — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's own hubris is what led ultimately to his arrest. Oh, the irony: Julian Assange's support for Donald Trump comes back to haunt him 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Both were readers: his father favored Shakespeare, and his mother loved O. Henry. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Pen names are accepted in genre fiction: Saki, O. Henry, Amanda Cross. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But there’s a certain O. Henry irony to the situation, insofar as the show, like its predecessor, is a meditation on how readily abuse can disguise itself with prestige trappings. “The Romanoffs,” “Camping,” and the Problem of Second Acts 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z His other writings have included the short story “Interior Space,” recognized with an O. Henry Award in 1981. APNewsBreak: Author John Irving wins literary peace award 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The story in Mademoiselle, “Miriam,” would win an O. Henry Prize the following year. Dear Reader: You Misunderstood My Story. Signed, Truman Capote. 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z It was famous for its habitués — Mark Twain, O. Henry, Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin crossed the threshold at onetime or another. At El Quijote, One Last Helping of Charm, Kitsch and Memories 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z With its perfidious turns, this escapist entertainment is a fine example of the 21st century’s more cynical version of the O. Henry ending. For your listening pleasure: 3 recommended audiobooks 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z In 1906, a character in an O. Henry story used a common slang phrase: “Say, sport, have you got a coffin nail on you?” Opinion | We don’t need the government to tell us smoking kills 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It has the carefree violence, sexual weirdness and surreal tenor of the Adult Swim brand, but the episodes I've seen tend toward an agreeable, even a sentimental resolution, somewhere between hip-hop satire and O. Henry. Let's get animated: The cartoons we'll keep watching in 2018 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z At the O. Henry Pun-Off onstage referees disqualify what they consider subpar wordplay, and a panel of judges hold up scores at the end of each round. Why English is such a great language for puns 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z He was one of the three African-American students to integrate O. Henry Junior High School. Don Baylor, Slugging M.V.P. in the American League, Dies at 68 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But he may be more like the platform’s O. Henry: undone with an ironic twist. Meet the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z He loved the story “The Cop and the Anthem,” by O. Henry; he read the abridged version of “The Call of the Wild” over and over. The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “Memphis” is a great example, establishing what sounds like a couple’s classic breakup story, only to cap it with a twist worthy of O. Henry. Chuck Berry brought a poet's touch — and respectability — to a brash new style of music 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Christmas brings some bigger effects and O. Henry plot points that don't all quite come off or ring true; the new film doubles down on the miraculous, though it also makes room for the skeptic. In new holiday TV specials, Dolly reveals more 'Colors,' MacLaine advises angels in 'A Heavenly Christmas' and Amazon gets beautifully animated 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z To paraphrase what O. Henry said of New York, “Destiny” is really going to be something when they finally finish it. ‘Destiny: Rise of Iron’ review: The latest in the series is proof that ‘Destiny’ will never end 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z But, in O. Henry's classic story, even at this pitiful scheme Soapy failed. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Catalyst couldn’t launch in September without funding to convert the O. Henry gym into the church’s new home. An Austin minister strives to form a church 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z In a twist of fate worthy of writer O. Henry, Harrington and Leonard’s song “Amazing” contains the lyric “I knew all too well/The stairway to heaven starts in hell.” Ed Sheeran's 'Photograph' targeted in $20-million copyright infringement lawsuit 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The award is named for Greensboro native William Sydney Porter, who wrote under the pen name O. Henry. Winners announced in 2016 NC AP News Excellence Contest 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The gruff old city editor knew that stories of sacrifice sold papers in big batches, and the classic story of secular Christmas sacrifice is O. Henry’s short story, “Gift of the Magi.” WESLEY PRUDEN: Christmas tales of the weird and not-so-wonderful 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z O. Henry wrote that story 75 years ago, but things are even more paradoxical for the poor today. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Blake learned that Catalyst would soon lose its home at O. Henry due to summer construction. An Austin minister strives to form a church 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z "It really is like an O. Henry tale," she said, referring to the famous pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter, whose short stories are known for their surprise endings. A violinist's beloved Stradivarius is returned to his family 35 years after it was stolen 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The stories are surprising, in the manner of those written more than a century ago by short-story master O. Henry. If you love sci-fi, you’ll love this 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z O. Henry described “that sad company of mariners known as Jersey commuters.” How a Ferry Ride Helped Make Brooklyn the Original Suburb 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But first, a word of warning: In the classic story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, written in the early 1900s, a poor husband and wife exchange gifts. Gift Ideas for Last-Minute Shoppers 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Soon after, Blake found a place in an unexpected space: O. Henry Middle School. An Austin minister strives to form a church 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z There is a famous story by O. Henry called the Gift of the Magi, about two people who were foolish enough to try to get each other thoughtful gifts, well in advance. Why is holiday gift-giving so hard? 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Those who tune in and want drama are those who seek IndyCar wrecks or O. Henry endings. Rory McIlroy conducts electricity with thrilling third-round finish 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z While plenty of his trademark twee lingers throughout, The Grand Budapest Hotel packs a farcical edge that recalls the stronger works of O. Henry or even Monty Python. Austin’s Silver Screen Winners: The Top 10 Films at South by Southwest 2014-03-14T20:06:49Z Her literary tastes are eclectic, ranging from controversial Chinese writer Yu Hua to American author O. Henry. China's Answer to the Spelling Bee Is a Test Most Adults There Couldn't Pass 2013-10-19T02:48:54Z I glow, too, under the conviction that correspondence courses can transform me into a trained nurse, an O. Henry, a Thomas Nast. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z And you can make neat remarks about the resemblances and differences between O. Henry, Boccaccio, and H. C. Bunner. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z O. Henry gave these tales neither extension nor prominence; so far as I know, they were received without bravos or salvos. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It was there in 1896 that the pseudonymous American writer O. Henry wrote “Cabbages and Kings”, a derisive tale of torpor, in which he coined the term “banana republic”. City building: Hong Kong in Honduras 2011-12-08T16:17:05Z We are here far away from the O. Henry type of story, with its startling cleverness, crisp humor, and ingenious surprise. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Only I think I’m going to be a regular O. Henry story. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Then O. Henry comes along and makes twenty stories. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z In O. Henry American journalism and the Victorian tradition meet. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Dining options abound, from the 71 Irving Place coffee bar to Pete’s Tavern, the venerable watering hole across the street that once hosted O. Henry. | Gramercy Park: Feel Free to Use the Name, at Least 2011-08-12T21:00:40Z O. Henry would advise you to go out in the night and await Adventure. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z If you must imitate any one, imitate O. Henry or Ferber, even Montagu Glass. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z Is there not an excellent O. Henry sort of story in this piquant city situation? Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z O. Henry asks us to imagine the unimaginable—that is his crime. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z In one of O. Henry's stories a little girl down on Chrystie Street asks her father, "a red-haired, unshaven, untidy man sitting shoeless by the window" to play a game of checkers with her. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z She and O. Henry simply don’t regard money one way or the other in their judgment of persons. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z In Pape’s hands, suppose we say by accident, the volume he had rescued from the floor opened upon one of O. Henry’s immortelles—“Alias Jimmie Valentine.” Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Or he longed to be like O. Henry, wise with the wisdom of the Town. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z The South rounds its periods like its vowels; O. Henry has read, not widely, but wisely, in his boyhood. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z “They mostly were familiar with what we call ‘dead white males,’ wonderful writers, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and O. Henry,” who were staples of Soviet studies of American literature. New Approaches to Understanding a Former Enemy 2011-03-28T16:18:32Z They really take no interest in anyone who does not need financial or moral help, but Molly and O. Henry are just as good to the rich as the poor.” Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z Kind of reminds us of the O. Henry story “The Last Leaf.” City Room: Riverbank State Park, Harlem, 2 P.M. 2011-03-14T20:53:34Z Mr. Chesterton quite agreed as to the English welcome of Mark Twain or of O. Henry. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z O. Henry had rare but precious insights into human destiny and human nature. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Similarly take some of the instances of self-sacrifice by the common people which Bret Harte and O. Henry delighted in depicting. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In 1896, E. H. Babbitt wrote about “The Language of the Lower Classes in New York and Vicinity” whose voices O. Henry later captured in his short stories. Unlearning to Tawk Like a New Yorker 2010-11-19T16:08:00Z A partial list of those who stayed there includes writers such as Clarke, O. Henry and Thomas Wolfe, playwright Arthur Miller, artist Andy Warhol and musicians Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Haven for New York artists, Chelsea Hotel for sale 2010-10-19T17:50:00Z And, indeed, in the matter of years O. Henry might very well be living now. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Mr. Robert Cortes Holliday, in an essay called "The Amazing Failure of O. Henry," said that O. Henry created no memorable characters. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Yet there is poetry in the humorous writings of men like Mark Twain and O. Henry, on account of the ecstatic effect upon the reader. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The supposed link between pinup and bag lady sounded too much like an O. Henry tale of Old New York, and begged too many questions. Death of a Fulton Fish Market Fixture 2010-10-16T13:11:00Z The fact that London was a very fine writer and O. Henry something of a gimmicky hack does not, apparently, enter into it. Tuesday link dump: The needs of the many 2010-06-08T23:45:00Z What story is there, in that absurd, pathetic scene, what O. Henry tale of mischance in a great city? Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z O. Henry is on the spot to prove that they can. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Its plot, as outlined in The London Times of March 4, 1914, reminds one strongly of O. Henry's The Cop and the Anthem. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Others, such as Mr Conrad, Miss Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Mr Galsworthy, are not mentioned at all; if the name of Mr Henry James is spoken, it leads up to a gibe at long sentences. A Novelist on Novels This flippancy and affectation is apparent is some of Kipling's and O. Henry's work, and probably repels as many as it attracts. The Technique of Fiction Writing The stories are of varying value, exercises on a sentimental motive cloaked by humorous or bizarre exaggeration of language, with those unexpected but ingeniously plausible endings which are of the essence of "O. Henry's" method. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 O. Henry was not born till September of the same year. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z In one of the most celebrated stories of O. Henry, entitled “The Gift of the Magi”, the author made the technical mistake of appending a superfluous paragraph after his logical pattern had been completed. A Manual of the Art of Fiction About this outing there have been woven stories of a glamour which might have come from the fancy of O. Henry and the author of the "Arabian Nights" working in collaboration. Westward with the Prince of Wales The trouble, possibly, with the enduring qualities of the brilliant humorous stories of "O. Henry" was that they tempt the reader to laugh too much and to smile too little. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Yes, she has been reading ‘The Virginian’ and O. Henry and ‘Wolfville’ until it is simply awful to hear her talk. Hidden Water O. Henry's public seems imaged in that young man. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z O. Henry: “Roads of Destiny.”––The plotting of this story illustrates in practice most of the important points expounded in this chapter. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Well, I have seen in later years an almost equally wide and well-merited popularity of the stories of O. Henry. What I Saw in America O. Henry does not often moralize, but no reader ever finds fault with his concluding paragraph. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Indeed I have come to feel that in the pages of O. Henry there is more to be gleaned on the psychology of the working class than any books to be found on economic shelves. Working With the Working Woman A horseman who should dismount to pick up a bauble would be childish; O. Henry picks it up without dismounting. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The success of O. Henry with the reading public may be attributed mainly to his cleverness in taking full advantage of the powerful expedient of emphasis by terminal position. A Manual of the Art of Fiction And yet books even more popular than O. Henry's are those of the 'sob-sisterhood' who swim in lachrymose lakes after love-lorn spinsters, who pass their lives in reclaiming and consoling such tramps. What I Saw in America That farmers afford particularly easy prey for book-agents and are the largest purchasers of cheap sets of Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling and O. Henry. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind In the structure and the style of her stories, Miss Ferber shows the influence of O. Henry, or as a newspaper wit put it, O. Henry's fame, unless mistaken I'm Goes ednaferberating down through time. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Substitute slang for the dog, and the superiority of the first class to the second will exactly illustrate the superiority of O. Henry to the abject traffickers in slang. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z O. Henry came very near to her, but did he not melodramatize her a little, sometimes cheapen her by his epigrammatic appraisal, fit her too neatly into his plot? Pipefuls This is the only story I have read in three years in which it seemed to me that I found the authentic voice of "O. Henry" speaking. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Read over the story and see if O. Henry had really prepared from the very beginning for such an ending and yet had kept the reader from knowing. Short Stories of Various Types It was the common man,—the clerk, the bartender, the policeman, the waiter, the tramp, that O. Henry chose for his characters. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day O. Henry, fortunate in plots, is peculiarly fortunate in his renunciation of plot. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Yes, perhaps O. Henry did say the secret after all: “He saw no longer a rabble, but his brothers seeking the ideal.” Pipefuls Imitation of "O. Henry" has been the curse of American story-telling for the past ten years, because "O. Henry" is practically inimitable. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story This is true even in a surprise ending, such as O. Henry delights in. Short Stories of Various Types He has almost established a definite type of short story writing, and in many of the stories now written one may clearly see the influence of O. Henry. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day O. Henry could not have given us less—or more. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It is like the beginning of an O. Henry story. Pipefuls Mr. Lewis is not an imitator, but he may well prove before very long to be "O. Henry's" successor. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story O. Henry approaches true literature here, for he has a theme that has lived and will ever live to uplift human life. Short Stories of Various Types O. Henry wrote a love story that does not follow the formula. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day The New York of O. Henry, already almost erased physically, remains a personality and an identity. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z O. Henry said once that one should be careful to distinguish laziness from dignified repose. Pipefuls First short story, "Contact," published in the Pictorial Review, December, 1920, and awarded second prize by O. Henry Memorial Committee Society of Arts and Sciences. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The quotation is taken from Jennings' reminiscences of his prison days, when he and the late lamented William Sydney Porter—the afterward famous author O. Henry—formed such a strong friendship. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Several arrests were made, and O. Henry was called to stand trial with others. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day This imperfect list is eloquent in its way; it smooths our path to the assertion that O. Henry's specialty is the enlistment of original method in the service of traditional appeals. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z This phrase is "the logical successor to O. Henry"—and it is misleading. The Lighted Match Most American short story writers are bad because they copy "O. Henry," and most English short story writers are bad because they copy Chekhov. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "Stevenson and O. Henry couldn't beat this adventure of ours," Raymond exclaimed one evening, wiping the moisture from his forehead. The Shield of Silence In his plots, O. Henry is romantic; in his settings he is a realist. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Criticism of O. Henry falls into those superlatives and antitheses in which his own faculty delighted. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Wodehouse suggests O. Henry only in that he has suddenly come into universal recognition as a remarkable humorist. The Lighted Match Chekhov and "O. Henry" were both great writers because they copied nobody. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The short-stories of "O. Henry" have been so widely read that when a new story appears that closely resembles one of his it is not long before comparisons are made. Writing the Photoplay This story, taken from the volume called The Four Million, is a good example of O. Henry's method as a short-story writer. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day O. Henry's is the type of mind to which images like this four-in-hand and this palm room are presented in exhaustless abundance and unflagging continuity. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z One of his short stories won an O. Henry award. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s In this City of Bluff, as O. Henry dubs New York, his simplicity had rung true as steel. The Big-Town Round-Up The script, which is an adaptation—the short-story of a famous author, "O. Henry," translated into screen technique—is in the form in which it was accepted for production. Writing the Photoplay Another characteristic of O. Henry is found in the unexpected turns of his plots. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day In the kingdom of style O. Henry's estates were princely, but, to pay his debts, he must have sold them all. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z —Arthur Bartlett Maurice. t was O. Henry, I believe, who spoke of restaurants as "literary landmarks." Greenwich Village Mr. Blinker, of O. Henry's "Brick Dust Row," could not then have seen his vision and found his light. Fifth Avenue Now we have dissected "O. Henry's" original story. Writing the Photoplay Note the freshness and effectiveness of the following description from the opening of O. Henry's story, "The Harbinger." The Art of Public Speaking I name, first of all, O. Henry's feeling for New York. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Perhaps the most whimsically descriptive is in O. Henry's "Last Leaf." Greenwich Village The spectacle moved one of them, Prince Michael, heir to the throne of the Electorate of Valleluna, in O. Henry's "The Caliph, Cupid, and the Clock," to pessimistic utterance. Fifth Avenue Pretend that you are a staff writer, and that you are to "do" a certain story by "O. Henry." Writing the Photoplay The big corset works, we dare say, has come since O. Henry's time. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Mr. Howells, in his profound and valuable study of the metropolis in a "Hazard of New Fortunes," is penetrating; O. Henry, on the other hand, is penetrated. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The sense of fellowship with every other walking biped, the full-blooded understanding that Whitman and O. Henry knew in brimming measure, comes by gulps and twinges to almost all. Shandygaff For the Avenue as the expression of the city's wealth and magnificence and aristocracy the late O. Henry had little love. Fifth Avenue To use O. Henry's immortal joke, we have days of Damon and Knights of Pythias writing those uninked letters to Bill. Mince Pie It is changing slowly, but it still has much of the flavour that Arthur Maurice had in mind when he christened It "the heart of O. Henry land." Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned He told me that among American writers he cared most for the works of Joel Chandler Harris and O. Henry—an odd combination! War in the Garden of Eden To borrow O. Henry's joke, they are more demitasso than Tasso. Shandygaff Of a restaurant that played a part in one of his stories O. Henry wrote: "Formerly it was a resort of interesting Bohemians; but now only writers, painters, actors, and musicians go there." Fifth Avenue In France, O. Henry and Tardif have made somewhat similar experiments on respiration and circulation. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man O. Henry would surely have told a yarn about him if he had been there fifteen years ago. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Of these, O. Henry was the most popular. War in the Garden of Eden Milton will need more explanatory notes than O. Henry. Cambridge Essays on Education Prison was good for O. Henry in one respect: it gave him the opportunity to write. Heart of the West [Annotated] He is praised for a kind of O. Henry double meaning to his antics. The Art of the Moving Picture The cool tavern at the corner of Eighteenth, where Con Delaney tended the bar in the days when O. Henry visited it, is there still. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Much concerned about wisdom as Theodore Dreiser is, he almost wholly lacks the dexterous knowingness which has marked the mass of fiction in the age of O. Henry. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) O. Henry always retained the whimsical sense of humor which made him quickly famous. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations O. Henry undoubtedly picked up the word during his stay on South Texas ranches, but he probably never saw the word written, and "suaderos" was what he came up with many years later when writing. Heart of the West [Annotated] Languages when they evolve produce stylists, and we will some day distinguish the different photoplay masters as we now delight in the separate tang of O. Henry and Mark Twain and Howells. The Art of the Moving Picture The first question, "What form shall the monument assume?" drew tentative suggestions of a needle in Gramercy Square, or a tablet affixed to the corner of O. Henry's home in West Twenty-sixth Street. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 The Pocket book of O. Henry prize stories. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December The dimity sweetheart; O. Henry's own love story. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 July - December Hall had resigned from the Rangers and was managing a ranch when O. Henry was taken to Texas by Hall's parents. Heart of the West [Annotated] He is said to be like one of O. Henry's misquotations of the classics. The Art of the Moving Picture To state that it is farthest from the practice of O. Henry invites a logical and inevitable conclusion. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 It sounds like an O. Henry story, but, except for the name of the girl and the hotel, it is not fiction. With the Allies A glance at the stories republished by the O. Henry Memorial Award Committee for 1920 will reveal their varied nature. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 This theme appears in other O. Henry stories. Heart of the West [Annotated] The Committee is, therefore, in a sense, a memorial to Mr. Tucker, as well as to O. Henry. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 The Committee of Award would like them to know that renewal of the O. Henry prize depends upon their generous cooperation. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 It was O. Henry, caliph of phrases, who called San Francisco the Bagdad of the West. Fascinating San Francisco Incidentally, it is interesting to read from a letter of Mr. Lewis: "The brevity—and the twist in the plot at the end—were consciously patterned on O. Henry's methods." O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The description here is undoubtedly from O. Henry's memory of his journey from his home in North Carolina to a ranch in LaSalle County, Texas, when he was twenty. Heart of the West [Annotated] The Committee of Award wish once again to thank the authors, editors, and publishers whose cooperation makes possible this annual volume and the O. Henry Memorial Prizes. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Who is this brilliant writer?—this combination of O. Henry, Edith Wharton, and W.D. Bambi O. Henry had found in these people romance, pathos, love, hate—Amory saw only coarseness, physical filth, and stupidity. This Side of Paradise For these stories the authors duly received the awards, on the occasion of the O. Henry Memorial dinner which was given by the Society at the Hotel Astor, June 2, 1920. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 O. Henry, then a drug clerk in Austin, being filled with literary aspiration, bought the press and the name of The Iconoclast for $250; but O. Henry's Iconoclast after two issues also ceased to flutter. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room. Buttered Side Down: Stories But why hadn't O. Henry emphasized its beauty, instead of its squalor? Fanny Herself O. Henry's ranch experiences in Texas were largely confined to a sheep ranch. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations Surely, for most of us, an arctic night would be insupportable without O. Henry and Stevenson. The Haunted Bookshop I relate this incident not to cast discredit upon O. Henry's originality. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 If you're looking for light reading, and can't think of something that you specifically want, how about these all-time favorites: The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 No one cares to recall the unhappy fortunes of Burns, De Musset, Chopin or--even in our own time--of O. Henry, and others who might be named. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Interpretative stories of Texas range life, which O. Henry for a time lived. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations As O. Henry puts it in one of his most delightful stories: "He was outwardly decent and managed to preserve his aquarium, but inside he was impromptu and full of unexpectedness." The Haunted Bookshop That O. Henry's ambition to write may be accredited to the influence of Brann seems more than probable. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 No one cares to recall the unhappy fortunes of Burns, De Musset, Chopin or—even in our own time—of O. Henry, and others who might be named. Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography That was the day when O. Henry was in New York. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Nobody has written a better description of a prickly pear flat than O. Henry in his story of "The Caballero's Way." Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations He took out his pyjamas and threw them on the bed; put his toothbrush and razor on the wash-basin, laid hairbrushes and O. Henry on the bureau. The Haunted Bookshop The Duplicity of Hargraves, the story by O. Henry given in this volume, is free from most of his defects. The Best American Humorous Short Stories One of O. Henry's first successful stories, and perhaps his best humorous tale, had its title so changed from "Cupid à la carte," to "A Guthrie Wooing." Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use But read the famous passage once more and turn again to O. Henry's story. Short Stories Old and New Were O. Henry alive, he could find material for a hundred new yarns, and William James numerous pointers for another work on psychology, while De Quincey might multiply his dreams ad infinitum. Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun "Was this the face that launched a thousand chips?" he murmured, and for an instant wished he had brought The Oxford Book of English Verse instead of O. Henry. The Haunted Bookshop Whatever else O. Henry was, he was an artist, a master of plot and diction, a genuine humorist, and a philosopher. The Best American Humorous Short Stories It was only a few days ago that I picked up one of O. Henry’s books. Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 The plan is simple but it is suffused with a love and sympathy that no one but Dickens or O. Henry could have given it. Short Stories Old and New It was published in the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1920, and later included in the O. Henry Memorial Collection for the same year. Tales of the Jazz Age For the first time on record, O. Henry failed to solace him. The Haunted Bookshop "O. Henry" was the pen name adopted by William Sydney Porter. The Best American Humorous Short Stories O. Henry is responsible for the vogue of the latter of these two alternatives,—and the strain of living up to his inventiveness has been frightful. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism It is interesting to know that O. Henry himself put slight value upon local color. Short Stories for English Courses I persuaded the hotel keeper to buy several volumes of O. Henry for his smoking-room shelf, and I sold the 'Waldorf Cook Book' to the cook. Parnassus on Wheels Yet much must be forgiven this young man for his love of O. Henry. The Haunted Bookshop The Duplicity of Hargraves, by O. Henry, is from his volume, Sixes and Sevens, and is republished by permission of its publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co. The Best American Humorous Short Stories Especially since O. Henry took the place of Kipling as a literary master, ingenuity, inventiveness, cleverness in its American sense, have been squandered upon the short story. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism This does not condemn, however, the "surprise" ending, so admirably used by O. Henry. Short Stories for English Courses Her apartment was very warm—small, it was, with a row of professional pictures and sets of Kipling and O. Henry which she had bought once from a blue-eyed agent and read occasionally. Flappers and Philosophers He knew, what many other happy souls have found, that O. Henry is one of those rare and gifted tellers of tales who can be read at all times. The Haunted Bookshop Now the facts were given to O. Henry by an old and dear friend who, in his wild avenging youth, had actually held up trains. Rolling Stones There will be more writers, like O. Henry, who write stories to please themselves, and thus please the majority. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism For a supreme example of wild vagaries of language used for humour, one might take O. Henry's "Gentle Grafter." My Discovery of England Of the poems, there are a few whose authorship might have been in doubt if the compiler of this collection had not secured external evidence that made them certainly the work of O. Henry. Rolling Stones They are reprinted here with all of their local references because, written hurriedly and for neighborly reading, they nevertheless have an interest for the admirer of O. Henry. Rolling Stones There is extant a mass of O. Henry correspondence that has not been included in this collection. Rolling Stones Without this very strong evidence, they might have been rejected because they were not entirely the kind of poems the readers of O. Henry would expect from him. Rolling Stones But if a person mispronounces the name of a Greek village of what O. Henry called "The Year B.C." it is supposed to be excruciatingly funny. My Discovery of England Jennings, of Oklahoma City, was an early friend of O. Henry's. Rolling Stones |
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