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William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. 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 moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1882, he married. In 1884 he started a humourous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. In 1898 he entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. While in prison O. Henry started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret. His first work, “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking” (1899), appeared in McClure’s Magazine. After doing three years of the five years sentence, Porter emerged from the prison in 1901 and changed his name to O. Henry. O. Henry moved to New York City in 1902 and from December 1903 to January 1906 he wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. Henry’s first collection, Cabbages and Kings appeared in 1904. The second, The Four Million, was published two years later and included his well-known stories “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room”. The Trimmed Lamp (1907) included “The Last Leaf”. Henry’s best known work is perhaps the much anthologized “The Ransom of Red Chief”, included in the collection Whirligigs (1910). The Heart Of The West (1907) presented tales of the Texas range. O. Henry published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. Paperback, Label: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Product group: Book, Published: 2016-07-04, Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sales rank: 2885744.

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Selected Short Stories of O. Henry: Selected Short Stories of O. Henry collects the most famous short stories of O. Henry, the main background of which is the New York in the early 20th century, which indicates the contemporary spirit in the turn of the century in concentration. The author peels off the social hot spots subtly, and uses the elegant and concise languages to display them in art reproduction. The leading characteristics in Selected Short Stories of O. Henry mainly are obscure characters such as small staffs, polices and poverty artists, but at the same time, they are the loving couples, trustworthy friends, self-sacrifice civilian heroes etc. the structure of the stories is very delicacy, and plots are in good rhythm, and the endings always out of expectation, and the entire style is optimistic and humorous, and the wisdom is fully revealed in the stories. Ebook.

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