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4 days ago · The plot twist at the end showcases O. Henry’s style, emphasizing themes of selflessness and true love. The story’s simplicity and emotional depth make it a classic.
5 days ago · O. Henry (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York) was an American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic, and ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- American writer O. Henry is famous for his short stories. His tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular, the life of ordinary people in New...
- O. Henry was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- American writer O. Henry was born William Sidney Porter. He later changed the spelling of his middle name to “Sydney” and subsequently adopted “O....
- Before O. Henry was a professional writer, he worked as a clerk in a drugstore. In 1882 he went to Texas, where he worked on a ranch, in a general...
2 days ago · Notice that the major story question—how do novels affect readers?—is apparent throughout the novel in both plot and character. The characters are different types of readers, and have different reactions to the novels they read: Catherine is naive, Henry rational, Thorpe careless, leaving the reader of Northanger Abbey to conclude that ...
3 days ago · Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
- Charles Dickens
- 1860
2 days ago · Previously I examined Joel Chandler Harris’ 1902 story Flingin’ Jim And His Fool-Killer, set in Georgia in October of 1872, plus Ridgway Hill’s Facts for the Fool-Killer, set in and around Buffalo, NY in 1909. Now we back up a year for the great O. Henry’s story The Fool-Killer, published as part of The Voice of the City in 1908.
1 day ago · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist ...
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1 day ago · The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...
