O. Henry

Waifs And Strays (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Waifs and Strays is a short story collection by O. Henry, released posthumously in 1917. Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including 'May This Be Your Last Sorrow' from The Essential Bordertown and 'There's No Such Thing,' which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, 'Sisters,' tells of precocious 16-year-old Appoline, a vampire ('Yeah, I drink blood. But it's not as gross as it sounds. And it's not as messy as it is in some of the movies') who plans to wait until her sister, Cassandra, turns 16 before turning her into one, too.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965377752
• Artikelnr.: 58566151

Autorenporträt

O. Henry (1862-1910) was an American short story writer. Born and raised in North Carolina, O. Henry-whose real name was William Sydney Porter-moved to Texas in 1882 in search of work. He met and married Athol Estes in Austin, where he became well known as a musician and socialite. In 1888, Athol gave birth to a son who died soon after, and in 1889 a daughter named Margaret was born. Porter began working as a teller and bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Austin in 1890 and was fired four years later and accused of embezzlement. Afterward, he began publishing a satirical weekly called The Rolling Stone, but in 1895 he was arrested in Houston following an audit of his former employer. While waiting to stand trial, Henry fled to Honduras, where he lived for six months before returning to Texas to surrender himself upon hearing of Athol's declining health. She died in July of 1897 from tuberculosis, and Porter served three years at the Ohio Penitentiary before moving to Pittsburgh to care for his daughter. While in prison, he began publishing stories under the pseudonym "O. Henry," finding some success and launching a career that would blossom upon his release with such short stories as "The Gift of the Magi" (1905) and "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1907). He is recognized as one of America's leading writers of short fiction, and the annual O. Henry Award-which has been won by such writers as William Faulkner, John Updike, and Eudora Welty-remains one of America's most prestigious literary prizes.