Biblio® is a registered trademark of Biblio, Inc. At first I had a problem with the slang used from that time period, but enjoyed the book very much, and would recommend it to someone reading for enjoyment and relaxation. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Among his best-known works are “The Cop and the Anthem,” “After Twenty Years,” and “Compliments of the Season.” Today, the O. Henry Award, for outstanding short stories, is named after him. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program. This comically romantic longing is often deflected into an outlandish competition, the winner of which is supposed to get the girl. Nine collections of his stories were published before he died, and another three were released after his death. For two years he did light work and soaked up the lore and milieu of the American West that would later inform many of his stories. Collecting Children’s Literature by Writers and Educators of the Harlem Renaissance. Many of the words and expressions you've probably never heard of help set the tone of the characters. In “Cupid a la Carte,” set in the boomtown of Guthrie, Oklahoma—“’Twas when the Oklahoma country was in first bloom. Though he’s best remembered today for his fiction about city life at the turn of the twentieth century, Heart of the West, his fourth volume of short stories, is set mostly in the state of Texas in the 1880s, where Porter lived for fourteen years, from the ages of nineteen to thirty-three. I was certainly enlightened in that regard, though I should say that that story itself is a dark, albeit characteristically clever, tale. All good stories with unexpected endings. There are 1 items available. Select PayPal Credit at checkout to have the option to pay over time. This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. This copy has the bookplate of Dennis Wheatley (1879 - 1977) to the inside cover. Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2020, Love anything and every thing this man wrote, Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. “Them ideas is so original and soothing. The PayPal Credit account is issued by Synchrony Bank. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Just as his later, more famous stories of New York at the turn of the twentieth century are still worth reading for their vivid portrayal of the city’s hoi polloi, the stories in Heart of the West provide crisply focused little snapshots of the West, and Texas especially, in the 1880s, taken by someone who was there. A collection of short fiction set in the American West. Their second, a daughter, Margaret, was born in 1889. “Writing is my business,” he said to a friend, “it is my way of getting money to pay room rent, to buy food and clothes and Pilsner. Though his earliest stories were set in the American West and Central America, he was soon chiefly known as a lively and observant chronicler of the hardscrabble lives of ordinary New Yorkers, in such stories as “The Gift of Magi” and “The Furnished Room.” Over the next eight years, he became perhaps the most popular writer in the country, publishing hundreds of short stories, and finding himself compared by readers and critics (rather overenthusiastically) to the French novelist Balzac and the great Russian short-story writer Anton Chekhov.
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