O. Henry - Wikipedia
O. Henry, Olivier Henry, Oliver Henry [1] Occupation: Writer: Genre: Short story: Spouse: Athol Estes (1887–1897) Sarah Coleman (1907–1909) Children: 2: ... The bank was operated informally, and Porter was apparently careless in keeping his books and may have embezzled funds. In 1894, he was accused by the bank of embezzlement and lost his ...
Books by O. Henry (Author of The Gift of the Magi) - Goodreads
O. Henry has 1472 books on Goodreads with 340142 ratings. O. Henry’s most popular book is The Gift of the Magi.
10 of the Best O. Henry Short Stories Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The stories of the US short-story writer O. Henry, real name William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), are characterised by their irony and by their surprise endings, which became something of a signature of a good O. Henry short story. However, another word that is often used to describe O. Henry’s…
O. Henry | Biography, Books, Achievements, Short Stories, Award ...
2024年9月7日 · In 1902 O. Henry arrived in New York—his “Bagdad on the Subway.” From December 1903 to January 1906 he produced a story a week for the New York Sunday World magazine and also wrote for other magazines. His first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), depicted fantastic characters against exotic Honduran backgrounds. Both The Four Million …
O. Henry (Author of The Gift of the Magi) - Goodreads
Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. Henry. His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language. Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis.
List of Books by O. Henry - Barnes & Noble
O. Henry Books. O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) was a prolific American short story writer. Initially trained as a pharmacist, Porter began his writing career as a journalist and worked on his stories on the side. After being accused of embezzling money from a bank he worked for, he fled to Honduras.
Books by Henry, O. (sorted by popularity) - Project Gutenberg
The Gift of the Magi O. Henry 3030 downloads; The Best American Humorous Short Stories 1805 downloads; The Four Million O. Henry 912 downloads; Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of O. Henry O. Henry 730 downloads; Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools 505 downloads; Roads of Destiny O. Henry 499 downloads; The Trimmed Lamp, and Other …
The Complete Works of O. Henry by O. Henry - Goodreads
A volume of O. Henry caught my eye. I took it up. The Gift of the Magi was missing. The Ransom of Red Chief wasn't there. It appeared that the book contained some stories I didn't remember, if I'd ever read them at all. Long story short: in dire need of a fix of print, I read the book. This was a different O. Henry, I thought.
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
1994年3月22日 · The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller.
O. Henry - Short Stories and Classic Literature
O. Henry was always a lover of classic literature, and while pursuing his many ventures, O. Henry had begun writing as a hobby. When he lost his banking position he moved to Houston in 1895 and started writing for the The Post, earning $25 per month (an average salary at this time in American history was probably about $300 a year). O.