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100 Selected Stories - Paperback Revised Edition
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SpecificationsAbout the Author William Sydney Porter 1862-1910 published all of his work—a novel and some 300 short stories—under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature local tone narrative agility and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro North Carolina to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle’s drugstore as a youth becoming a certified pharmacist. Like many Southerners after the Civil War he sought his fortune in the West holding various jobs newspaper work clerking in a land office a teller at an Austin bank. Charged with embezzlement in 1894 he fled to Honduras returning in 1897 to be with his ill and dying wife. His conviction was caused more by his eluding trial than by the conflicting evidence of theft. In the Ohio State Penitentiary 1898-1901 he began to write the stories that made him famous. He moved to New York remarried and kept his identity a secret from all but a few friends. He is buried in Asheville North Carolina. He is universally honored for his mastery of the short story and for his humane spirit. Guy Davenport a critic and writer of fiction is best known for two books of essays The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He has published seven collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. Now retired he was a professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990. He is also a painter and illustrator.Author 1 O. HenryFormat PaperbackEdition Number Revised EditionISBN-10 1853262412ISBN-13 9781853262418Language EnglishNumber of Pages 735View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author William Sydney Porter 1862-1910 published all of his work—a novel and some 300 short stories—under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature local tone narrative agility and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro North Carolina to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle’s drugstore as a youth becoming a certified pharmacist. Like many Southerners after the Civil War he sought his fortune in the West holding various jobs newspaper work clerking in a land office a teller at an Austin bank. Charged with embezzlement in 1894 he fled to Honduras returning in 1897 to be with his ill and dying wife. His conviction was caused more by his eluding trial than by the conflicting evidence of theft. In the Ohio State Penitentiary 1898-1901 he began to write the stories that made him famous. He moved to New York remarried and kept his identity a secret from all but a few friends. He is buried in Asheville North Carolina. He is universally honored for his mastery of the short story and for his humane spirit. Guy Davenport a critic and writer of fiction is best known for two books of essays The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He has published seven collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. Now retired he was a professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990. He is also a painter and illustrator.Author 1 O. HenryFormat PaperbackEdition Number Revised EditionISBN-10 1853262412ISBN-13 9781853262418Language EnglishNumber of Pages 735View Full Specifications

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Date first listed on zimpot : Apr 30, 2021
SpecificationsAbout the Author William Sydney Porter 1862-1910 published all of his work—a novel and some 300 short stories—under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature local tone narrative agility and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro North Carolina to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle’s drugstore as a youth becoming a certified pharmacist. Like many Southerners after the Civil War he sought his fortune in the West holding various jobs newspaper work clerking in a land office a teller at an Austin bank. Charged with embezzlement in 1894 he fled to Honduras returning in 1897 to be with his ill and dying wife. His conviction was caused more by his eluding trial than by the conflicting evidence of theft. In the Ohio State Penitentiary 1898-1901 he began to write the stories that made him famous. He moved to New York remarried and kept his identity a secret from all but a few friends. He is buried in Asheville North Carolina. He is universally honored for his mastery of the short story and for his humane spirit. Guy Davenport a critic and writer of fiction is best known for two books of essays The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He has published seven collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. Now retired he was a professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990. He is also a painter and illustrator.Author 1 O. HenryFormat PaperbackEdition Number Revised EditionISBN-10 1853262412ISBN-13 9781853262418Language EnglishNumber of Pages 735View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author William Sydney Porter 1862-1910 published all of his work—a novel and some 300 short stories—under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature local tone narrative agility and compassion tempered by irony made him a vastly popular writer in the last decade of his life. He was born in Greensboro North Carolina to ordinary middle-class parents and worked in an uncle’s drugstore as a youth becoming a certified pharmacist. Like many Southerners after the Civil War he sought his fortune in the West holding various jobs newspaper work clerking in a land office a teller at an Austin bank. Charged with embezzlement in 1894 he fled to Honduras returning in 1897 to be with his ill and dying wife. His conviction was caused more by his eluding trial than by the conflicting evidence of theft. In the Ohio State Penitentiary 1898-1901 he began to write the stories that made him famous. He moved to New York remarried and kept his identity a secret from all but a few friends. He is buried in Asheville North Carolina. He is universally honored for his mastery of the short story and for his humane spirit. Guy Davenport a critic and writer of fiction is best known for two books of essays The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He has published seven collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. Now retired he was a professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990. He is also a painter and illustrator.Author 1 O. HenryFormat PaperbackEdition Number Revised EditionISBN-10 1853262412ISBN-13 9781853262418Language EnglishNumber of Pages 735View Full Specifications

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