歐亨利介紹及其作品.ppt

O. Henry,Pen name : O.Henry Another pen name :Olivier Henry His primitive name : Williams Sydney Porter 原名：威廉姆斯西德尼波特,O. Henry (1862-1910) He was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Henry was known as a good end, it was called “O Henry-end”. Although some critics were not so enthusiastic about his work, the public loved it. He was called Prose Laureate of Manhattan and Father of short stories. He is one of three short story master in the world.(O. Henry , Maupassant, Chekhov),創(chuàng)作豐富的美國短篇小說作家，主要描寫紐約平民的生活，市民非常喜歡他。 以“歐亨利式結(jié)尾”聞名于世。 曼哈頓桂冠散文作家和美國現(xiàn)代短篇小說之父。 世界三大短篇小說大師之一。（歐亨利、莫泊桑、契訶夫）,William Sydney Porter was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal 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 continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including accountant,land board clerk, reporter. In 1887 he married Athol Estes Roach; they had a daughter and a son.,出生于美國北卡羅來納州格林斯波羅鎮(zhèn)一個醫(yī)師家庭，三歲喪母，之后與祖母、姑姑一起生活。 狂熱的閱讀者，但15歲便離開學校。 做過許多工作，在藥房當學徒，做過會計、土地局辦事員、記者。 1887年結(jié)婚，生有一兒一女。,In 1894 cash was found to have gone missing from the First National Bank in Austin, where Porter had worked as a bank teller. When he was called back to Austin to stand trial, Porter fled to Honduras to avoid trial. After hearing news that his wife was dying, he returned to Austin in 1897 . He was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. Porter entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. While in prison, Porter started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret. His first work, Whistling Dicks Christmas Stocking (1899), appeared in McClures Magazine. The stories of adventure in the U.S. Southwest and in Central America gained an immediately success among readers.,1894年，歐亨利花250美元買下了奧斯汀的一家周刊，將它更名為滾石（也可以說他創(chuàng)辦了滾石雜志），使它成為一份幽默雜志。編輯滾石一年后的1895年4月，它完全失敗了，于是他將這份雜志物歸了原主。接著，他們搬到了休斯頓 。1896年2月，他受到了盜用公款的起訴，被傳受審并被暫時關(guān)押。他的岳父將他保釋出獄。本來他的案情并不嚴重，但他在傳訊的前一天，1896年7月7日，逃到了路易斯安那州新奧爾良，然后又逃到了洪都拉斯。 1897年2月，他獲悉身患結(jié)核病的妻子病危，便趕回了奧斯汀。他回國后旋即被捕，但又很快再次被岳父保釋出獄。7月25日，他的妻子阿索爾波特（Athol Porter）死于結(jié)核病。 1899年12月，他以“歐亨利”為筆名在麥克盧爾雜志圣誕專號上發(fā)表了短篇小說口哨大王迪克的圣誕襪（Whistling Dicks Christmas Stocking）。,O. Henry moved to New York City in 1902 , he wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. Henrys first collection, Cabbage and Kings(白菜與國王), appeared in 1904. After that, he started a lot of creation. In New York, because a lot of excellent work published, he won fame and money. He was not only extravagant, but gambling, excessive drinking. Tired of writing and living in unrestrained made his body seriously damaged. O.Henry remarried in 1907. Unfortunately, there is no happiness for him.He died of Cirrhosis（肝硬化）on June 5, 1910.Then,he was only 48 years old.,1902年，他移居紐約，成了職業(yè)作家，創(chuàng)作了上百篇優(yōu)秀的短篇小說。 1904年，他出版了一生中唯一一部長篇小說白菜與國王（Cabbages and Kings），這是一部結(jié)構(gòu)松散的政治諷刺小說，有時也被視作短篇小說集。 在紐約，由于大量佳作的發(fā)表，他名利雙收，有時也受到記者的采訪。可他不僅揮霍無度，而且賭博，染上了他父親的惡習酗酒。寫作的勞累與生活的無節(jié)制使他的身體受到了嚴重損傷。 1907年，他跟早年時代的戀人莎拉林德賽科爾曼（Sarah Lindsey Coleman）結(jié)婚。他們是在歐亨利一次回鄉(xiāng)期間重逢的。然而這次婚姻并未給歐亨利帶來任何幸福，反而帶來更多的不和與不快。 1908年，他與第二任妻子離婚。 1910年6月5日，他死于肝硬化。年僅48歲。夢是他最后一篇小說 。,The Romance of a Busy Broker 證券經(jīng)紀人的浪漫故事 The Gift of Magi 麥琪的禮物 The Last Leaf 最后一片葉子 A Cosmopolite in a Caf 咖啡館里的世界公民 Mammon and the Archer 財神和愛神 The Ransom of Red Chief 紅色酋長的救贖 The Cop and the Anthem 警察和贊美詩,Major Works,The Gift of Magi,Its about the young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jims watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Dellas hair.,The Ransom of Red Chief,Two men kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so disgusting that the desperate men ultimately pay the boys father $250 to take him back.,Its about a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so he can avoid sleeping in the cold winter as a guest of the city jail. Despite efforts at petty theft, disorderly conduct, and “mashing“ with a young prostitute, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life and is ironically charged for loitering and sentenced to three months in prison.,The Cop and the Anthem,The Last Leaf,The main characters,Sue,Johnsy,Behrman,the doctor,Story,The Young, poor painter Johnsy contracted pneumonia, Sue make every effort to take care of her, but she still did not improve. Johnsy would give up completely when the last leaf fell to the ground. In order to save her ,Another old artist Behrman climbed the wall to paint the ivy leave in rainy night, which he contracted pneumonia and died two days l