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14 de mai. de 2024 · O. Henry (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York) was an American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. After his release in 1901...
- William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley (born Aug. 23, 1849, Gloucester,...
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22 de mai. de 2024 · Henry James was an American novelist and critic. During his lifetime he wrote 20 novels, 112 tales, and 12 plays in addition to several volumes of travel writing and criticism. Today he is best remembered as the author of the novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and the novella The Turn of the Screw (1898).
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- Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, in New York City. James was a well-traveled youth. As a teenager, he visited Geneva, Paris, and London. Jus...
- Henry James’s first short story, “A Tragedy of Error,” was published anonymously in The Continental Monthly in 1864. Shortly thereafter James befri...
- Henry James was a key transitional figure between literary realism and Modernism. James was interested in human behaviour and the inner workings of...
- Henry James was one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century. His most famous works included The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians...
- Henry James spent the last several years of his life in Great Britain. In protest of U.S. neutrality in World War I, James resigned his U.S. citize...
Há 3 dias · The earliest surviving mention of Moby-Dick is from a May 1, 1850, letter in which Melville told fellow sea author Richard Henry Dana Jr. "I am half way in the work." [92] In June, he described the book to his English publisher as "a romance of adventure, founded upon certain wild legends in the Southern Sperm Whale Fisheries," and promised it would be done by the fall. [93]
Há 4 dias · e. William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration as president in 1841, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history.
Há 2 dias · Description. William Sydney Porter, the real name of O. Henry, was known for his short stories that often contained surprise endings and dark, mysterious topics. Carl Van Doren argues that O. Henry's writing style was so unique because of his tendency to know all of the details of the story before he even began writing. O.
3 de mai. de 2024 · William Henry Harris Jr. made his mark as both a boxer himself and trainer of other ring greats. The most spectacular of these greats was his brother, Roy Harris, who gained a world heavyweight title fight against Floyd Patterson in August 1958. Henry helped train and worked Roy’s corner at the Los Angeles title site.
