Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему: О. Генри

Кульбеда Татьяна Павловна

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kind and ironic stories, in which love and justice always triumph, and evil is trampled and punished on merit. Unfortunately, the biography of O. Henry was far from this ideal. The writer suffered a lot before wealth and popularity came to him. And they did not bring happiness to the master of the word. A few interesting facts from the life of O. Henry, whose destiny was full of mystery and at other times resembled the plot of one of his own works than a biography of an ordinary person.

11 September 1862 

Place of birth: USA, Greensboro, North Carolina

a pseudonym of a humorist. Unfortunately, far fewer readers will be referred to as the present full name of the author William Sydney porter. And hardly anyone will say how he came up with a fictional name, because the biographers are still looking for a definite answer to this question. The most common legend is as follows. Early having lost his mother, and after some time and drunken father, the future Creator was forced to earn a living on their own.

and war. But not immediately.

«O. Henry.»

for the first time. Much later, porter, working already in the prison pharmacy, took the name of the eminent French colleague-O. Henri. Transkriberade such in English, the writer acquired the pseudonym to publish his work. However, the "pharmacy" version is not the only one in a number of variants of the origin of the surname. There's evidence, Henry is a random name, and O. is a random letter. Somewhat later than the original alias in the journals appeared the stories, the authorship of which allegedly belonged to one Oliver Henry. Biographers still suggest the origin of the fictional name-up to the abbreviated name of the prison where the writer was serving his sentence.

drew from life. But, unlike creativity, fate is not always pleased with the author and his family happy end. Thus, the famous "gifts of the Magi" were written after porter of the races rushed to his dying wife at Christmas. He managed to say goodbye to his beloved in this bright holiday, and she – to give her husband the last gift – a gold chain for his watch. The poor woman did not know that these same hours porter sold a few days earlier, so that the money to buy a ticket to a forgotten hometown.

residents of a huge metropolis, the dashing boys of the gang areas, the brave cowboy, the hard-working farmers, artists, writers, and other creative personalities... most of the works of the American writer is written in the genre of realism, although there are works fantastic in nature and with elements of mysticism. These include the stories " magic kiss”, “roads of fate”," furnished room", "Mirage on the cold river" and some others.  Through all the work, starting with the first literary specimens, the writer has carried a love of humor. Many of his stories are full of witty jokes and funny tales, so they will be interesting to children and adolescents.

fifty stories and novels published in collections and individual works. The first major book of the writer was the novel "Kings and cabbage", published in 1904. In it, he introduced the term "banana Republic" to qualify the country.

This phrase was later widely used to describe a small, unstable country with an agrarian economy. It was this work that brought the writer the greatest fame. Behind him came other collections of short stories: "four million", " the burning lamp”, "a Noble Rogue", "rotation" and others.

serve as a well-known service to society if society decided who to put there 
Life consists of sobs, sobs and smiles, with a predominance of sobs 
When a man comes to such a degree of humiliation, he causes such pity that you want to hit him 
There is no art higher than the art of living speech — this truth is irrefutable. On the face, and the conversation escort, the old proverb says new 
Risky thing love at first sight when she hasn't seen his checkbook, and he hasn't seen her paper shoes 
And here's my own recipe for getting a woman to a place where he can say, "so-and-so-born." Learn to take and hold her hand — and it's yours

O. Henry, getting very sorry for the poor writer, whose life was so bad. We can say that there was a period in the writer's life when he didn't feel necessary, but the ending is just horrific: frustrated, lonely death ... what if all is good, if the meaning of life and not be found. Death had erased all. Were only good memory of posterity, but that Henry, alas, will never know.

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