O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. 原名威廉姆斯·西德尼·波特(Williams Sydney Porter),是美国最著名的短篇小说家之一,曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。他出生于美国北卡罗来纳州格林斯波罗镇一个医师家庭。 他的一生富于传奇性,当过药房学徒、牧牛人、会计员、土地局办事员、新闻记者、银行出纳员。当银行出纳员时,因银行短缺了一笔现金,为避免审讯,离家流亡中美的洪都拉斯。后因回家探视病危的妻子被捕入狱,并在监狱医务室任药剂师。他创作第一部作品的起因是为了给女儿买圣诞礼物,但基于犯人的身份不敢使用真名,乃用一部法国药典的编者的名字作为笔名。1901年提前获释后,迁居纽约后,开始专门从事写作。 欧·亨利善于描写美国社会尤其是纽约百姓的生活。他的作品构思新颖,语言诙谐,结局总使人“感到在情理之中,又在意料之外”;又因描写了众多的人物,富于生活情趣,被誉为“美国生活的幽默百科全书”。代表作有小说集《白菜与国王》、《四百万》、《命运之路》等。其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》、《警察与赞美诗》、《麦琪的礼物》(也称作《贤人的礼物》)、《带家具出租的房间》、《最后一片常春藤叶》等使他获得了世界声誉,短篇小说《麦琪的礼物》以及《二十年后》被编入上海教育出版社八年级第一学期语文课本第八单元30课,课本里同样也对欧亨利本人做了详细的介绍。《最后一片常春藤叶》被编入上海九年级语文课本及人教版和苏教版高一课本。 名 句:“这时一种精神上的感慨油然而生,认为人生是由啜泣、抽噎和微笑组成的,而抽噎占了其中绝大部分。”(《欧·亨利短篇小说选》)
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The Gift of the Magi A Cosmopolite in a Cafe Between Rounds The Skylight Room A Service of Love The Coming-out of Maggie The Cop and the Anthem Memoirs of a Yellow Dog The Love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein Mammon and the Archer Springtime a la Carte From the Cabby’s Seat An Unfinished Story Sisters of the Golden Circle The Romance of a Busy Broker The Furnished Room The Brief Debut of Tildy Hearts and Crosses Telemachus,Friend The Handbook of Hymen The Trimmed Lamp The Pendulum The Assessor of Success The Buyer from Cactus City The Badge of Policeman O’Roon Briekdust Row The Making of a New Yorker Vanity and some Sables The Social Triangle The Lost Blend A Harlem Tragedy ‘The Guilty Party’ The Last Leaf The Count and the Wedding Guest The Tale of a Tainted Tenner Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet The Hand that Riles the World The Exact Science of Matrimony Conscience in Art The Man Higher Up A Tempered Wind Hostages to Momus The Ethics of Pig Strictly Business The Day Resurgent The Fifth Wheel The Poet and the Peasant The Thing’s the Play A Ramble in Aphasia A Municipal Report
Compliments of the Season Proof of the Pudding Past One atRooney’s ‘The Rose of Dixie’ The Third Ingredient Thimble,Thimble Buried Treasure The Moment of Victory The Head-Hunter The Last of the Troubadours The Sleuths Witches’ Loaves Holding up a Train Ulysses and the Dogman At Arms with Morpheus A Ghost of a Chance Jimmy Hayes and Muriel The Door of Unrest The Duplicity of Hargreaves Let Me Feel Your Pulse Law and Order Transformation of Martin Burney Roads of Destiny The Guardian of the Accolade The Enchanted Profile ‘Next to Reading Matter’ A Double-dyed Deceiver The Passing of Black Eagle A Retrieved Reformation The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss Two Renegades A Lickpenny Lover Dougherty’s Eye-opener ‘Little Speck in Garnered Fruit’ While the Auto Waits A Comedy in Rubber One Thousand Dollars The Shocks of Doom Nemesis and the Candy Man The Memento The Hypotheses of Failure Calloway’s Code ‘Girl’ A Technical Error A Blackjack Bargainer Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches A Ruler of Men The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear The Marionettes The Dream
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