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作       者:O. Henry

出  版  社:Seltzer Books

出版时间:2018-03-01

字       数:33.3万

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According to Wikipedia: "O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings…. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses. Fundamentally a product of his time, O. Henry's work provides one of the best English examples of catching the entire flavor of an age. Whether roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle grafter," or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York, O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. The Four Million is another collection of stories. It opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'" To O. Henry, everyone in New York counted. He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway,"
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Rolling Stones by O. Henry

INTRODUCTION

THE DREAM

A RULER of MEN

THE ATAVISM OF JOHN TOM LITTLE BEAR

HELPING THE OTHER FELLOW

THE MARIONETTES

THE MARQUIS AND MISS SALLY

A FOG IN SANTONE

THE FRIENDLY CALL

A DINNER AT -------*

SOUND AND FURY

THE GREAT FRENCH DETECTIVE, IN AUSTIN

TRACKED TO DOOM OR THE MYSTERY OF THE RUE DE PEYCHAUD

A SNAPSHOT AT THE PRESIDENT

AN UNFINISHED CHRISTMAS STORY

THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT

ARISTOCRACY VERSUS HASH

THE PRISONER OF ZEMBLA

A STRANGE STORY

FICKLE FORTUNE OR HOW GLADYS HUSTLED

AN APOLOGY

LORD OAKHURST'S CURSE

BEXAR SCRIP NO. 2692

QUERIES AND ANSWERS

POEMS

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

LETTERS

AN EARLY PARABLE

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