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Personal experience
• After moving in 1882 to Texas, he worked on a ranch in LaSalle County for two years.
• In 1887 he married Athol Estes Roach; they had one daughter and one son.
• The Last Leaf 最后的常春藤叶
• Next To Reading Matter 醉翁之意 • What You Want 君欲何求
Literary contributions
• An Adjustment of Nature 自然之修正 • After Twenty Years 二十年后 • An Afternoon Miracle 午后的奇迹 • The Atavism Of John Tom Little Bear
Personal experience
• In 1894 cash was found to have gone missing from the First National Bank in Austin, where Porter had worked as a bank teller.
• In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt.
Writing style
• O. Henry tended to repeat the motifs of his stories and fall into melodrama and sentimentality. He wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Typical for O. Henry's stories is a twist of plot which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance. His short stories were masterworks of careful plotting and surprise endings.
Themes
• The Ransom of Red Chief • The story tells about two kidnappers, who
make off with the young son of a prominent man. They find out that the child is a real nuisance. In the end they agree to pay the boy's father to take him back.
O. Henry (1862-1910)
(pseudonym of William Sydney Porter)
Content
• Personal experience • Literary contributions • Themes • Writing style • Social significance • Influence
小熊约翰·汤姆的返祖现象 • Babes In The Jungle 丛林中的孩子 • Best-Seller 畅销品 • Between Rounds 闹剧
Themes
Love, generosity, wealth and poverty are central themes in The Gift of the Magi.
• The Gift of the Magi describes an extremely poor young couple id determined to give Christmas presents to each other. He sells his watch to buy a set of combs for her long hair, and she cuts off her hair and sells it to buy him a watch fob. The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable thy may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things.
Personal experience
• O. Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• His father was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt.
• In 1894 Porter started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. It was at this time that he began heavy drinking. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist.
• William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk.
• In 1819, he died at Columbus.
Literary contributions
• The Gift of the Magi 麦琪的礼物 • The Ransom of Red Chief 红色酋长的救赎 • The Cop and the Anthem 警察与赞美诗 • Mammon and the Archer 爱神与财神
Personal experience
• After moving in 1882 to Texas, he worked on a ranch in LaSalle County for two years.
• In 1887 he married Athol Estes Roach; they had one daughter and one son.
• The Last Leaf 最后的常春藤叶
• Next To Reading Matter 醉翁之意 • What You Want 君欲何求
Literary contributions
• An Adjustment of Nature 自然之修正 • After Twenty Years 二十年后 • An Afternoon Miracle 午后的奇迹 • The Atavism Of John Tom Little Bear
Personal experience
• In 1894 cash was found to have gone missing from the First National Bank in Austin, where Porter had worked as a bank teller.
• In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt.
Writing style
• O. Henry tended to repeat the motifs of his stories and fall into melodrama and sentimentality. He wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Typical for O. Henry's stories is a twist of plot which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance. His short stories were masterworks of careful plotting and surprise endings.
Themes
• The Ransom of Red Chief • The story tells about two kidnappers, who
make off with the young son of a prominent man. They find out that the child is a real nuisance. In the end they agree to pay the boy's father to take him back.
O. Henry (1862-1910)
(pseudonym of William Sydney Porter)
Content
• Personal experience • Literary contributions • Themes • Writing style • Social significance • Influence
小熊约翰·汤姆的返祖现象 • Babes In The Jungle 丛林中的孩子 • Best-Seller 畅销品 • Between Rounds 闹剧
Themes
Love, generosity, wealth and poverty are central themes in The Gift of the Magi.
• The Gift of the Magi describes an extremely poor young couple id determined to give Christmas presents to each other. He sells his watch to buy a set of combs for her long hair, and she cuts off her hair and sells it to buy him a watch fob. The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable thy may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things.
Personal experience
• O. Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• His father was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt.
• In 1894 Porter started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. It was at this time that he began heavy drinking. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist.
• William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk.
• In 1819, he died at Columbus.
Literary contributions
• The Gift of the Magi 麦琪的礼物 • The Ransom of Red Chief 红色酋长的救赎 • The Cop and the Anthem 警察与赞美诗 • Mammon and the Archer 爱神与财神