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《高级汉英笔译教程》教学示范 Content Part IV The Literature of RealismIntroductionChapter 17 Harriet Beecher StoweChapter 18 Walt WhitmanChapter 19 Emily DickinsonChapter 20 Mark Twain Content Chapter 21 Henry JamesChapter 22 Kate ChopinChapter 23 O. HenryChapter 24 Theodore DreiserChapter 25 Jack LondonChapter 26 Sherwood Anderson Chapter 23 O. HenryLife and Works Brief CommentSelectionsNotesAppreciationFor Study and Discussion Chapter 3 Life and WorksO. Henry(1862-1910) born in North CarolinaWhen O. Henry was three, his mother died, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother.As a child, O. Henry was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Edward William Lane’s translation of One Thousand and One Nights and Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy.Chapter 23 O. Henry Chapter 23 O. HenryLife and Works As a child, O. Henry was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Edward William Lane’s translation of One Thousand and One Nights and Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1879, he started working in his uncle’s drugstore, and in 1881 O. Henry was licensed as a pharmacist. In 1887 he married Athol Estes, and started as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office, where he began developing characters and plots for such stories as “Georgia’s Ruling” and “Buried Treasure”. O. Henry’s most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York to be near his publishers. In 1910, O. Henry died and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina. Chapter 3 Chapter 23 O. HenryBrief Comment O. Henry’s stories are famous for their surprise endings; such an ending is now often referred to as an “O. Henry ending”. The plots are exceedingly clever and interesting; humor abounds and the ending is always surprising. His own estimate of himself was always a very modest one, and he was shy and retiring in the presence of friend