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O. Henry, 1862 – 1910).徐進夫*等譯 歐亨利短篇傑作選 新潮文庫 371 !372, 1995

 

 O. Henry, 1862 –  1910).徐進夫*等譯 歐亨利短篇傑作選 新潮文庫 371 !372 1995

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief", as well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. Porter's stories are known for their naturalist observations, witty narration, and surprise endings.


Stories

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Collections:

  • Cabbages and Kings (1904), novel consisting of linked stories. Collection of 19 short stories:
    "The Proem: By the Carpenter", "'Fox-in-the-Morning'", "The Lotus and the Bottle", "Smith", "Caught", "Cupid's Exile Number Two", "The Phonograph and the Graft", "Money Maze", "The Admiral", "The Flag Paramount", "The Shamrock and the Palm", "The Remnants of the Code", "Shoes", "Ships", "Masters of Arts", "Dicky", "Rouge et Noir", "Two Recalls", "The Vitagraphoscope"
  • 大陸 商務印書館 有   四百萬 翻譯The Four Million (1906), collection of 25 short stories:
    "Tobin's Palm", "The Gift of the Magi", "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe", "Between Rounds", "The Skylight Room", "A Service of Love", "The Coming-Out of Maggie", "Man About Town", "The Cop and the Anthem", "An Adjustment of Nature", "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon and the Archer", "Springtime à la Carte", "The Green Door", "From the Cabby's Seat", "An Unfinished Story", "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock", "Sisters of the Golden Circle", "The Romance of a Busy Broker", "After Twenty Years", "Lost on Dress Parade", "By Courier", "The Furnished Room", "The Brief Debut of Tildy"
  • The Trimmed Lamp (1907), collection of 25 short stories:
    "The Trimmed Lamp", "A Madison Square Arabian Night", "The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball", "The Pendulum", "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", "The Assessor of Success", "The Buyer from Cactus City", "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon", "Brickdust Row" (made into the 1918 film, Everybody's Girl), "The Making of a New Yorker", "Vanity and Some Sables", "The Social Triangle", "The Purple Dress", "The Foreign Policy of Company 99", "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "'The Guilty Party'", "A Midsummer Knight's Dream", "According to Their Lights", "The Last Leaf", "The Count and the Wedding Guest", "The Country of Elusion", "The Ferry of Unfulfilment", "The Tale of a Tainted Tenner", "Elsie in New York"
  • Heart of the West (1907), collection of 19 short stories:
    "Hearts and Crosses", "The Ransom of Mack", "Telemachus, Friend", "The Handbook of Hymen", "The Pimienta Pancakes", "Seats of the Haughty", "Hygeia at the Solito", "An Afternoon Miracle", "The Higher Abdication", "Cupid à la Carte", "The Caballero's Way", "The Sphinx Apple", "The Missing Chord", "A Call Loan", "The Princess and the Puma", "The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson", "Christmas by Injunction", "A Chaparral Prince", "The Reformation of Calliope"
  • The Gentle Grafter (1908), collection of 14 short stories:
    "The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Chair of Philanthromathematics", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", "A Midsummer Masquerade", "Shearing the Wolf", "Innocents of Broadway", "Conscience in Art", "The Man Higher Up", "Tempered Wind", "Hostages to Momus", "The Ethics of Pig"
  • The Voice of the City (1908), collection of 25 short stories:
    "The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty's Eye-opener", "'Little Speck in Garnered Fruit'", "The Harbinger", "While the Auto Waits", "A Comedy in Rubber", "One Thousand Dollars", "The Defeat of the City", "The Shocks of Doom", "The Plutonian Fire", "Nemesis and the Candy Man", "Squaring the Circle", "Roses, Ruses and Romance", "The City of Dreadful Night", "The Easter of the Soul", "The Fool-killer", "Transients in Arcadia", "The Rathskeller and the Rose", "The Clarion Call", "Extradited from Bohemia", "A Philistine in Bohemia", "From Each According to His Ability", "The Memento"
  • Roads of Destiny (1909), collection of 22 short stories:
    "Roads of Destiny", "The Guardian of the Accolade", "The Discounters of Money", "The Enchanted Profile", "Next to Reading Matter", "Art and the Bronco", "Phoebe", "A Double-dyed Deceiver", "The Passing of Black Eagle", "A Retrieved Reformation", "Cherchez la Femme", "Friends in San Rosario", "The Fourth in Salvador", "The Emancipation of Billy", "The Enchanted Kiss", "A Departmental Case", "The Renaissance at Charleroi", "On Behalf of the Management", "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking", "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss", "Two Renegades", "The Lonesome Road"
  • Options (1909), collection of 16 short stories:
    "'The Rose of Dixie'", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools", "Thimble, Thimble", "Supply and Demand", "Buried Treasure", "To Him Who Waits", "He Also Serves", "The Moment of Victory", "The Head-hunter", "No Story", "The Higher Pragmatism", "Best-seller", "Rus in Urbe", "A Poor Rule"
  • The Two Women (1910), collection of 2 short stories:
    "A Fog in Santone", "Blind Man's Holiday"
  • Strictly Business (1910), collection of 23 short stories:
    "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes in the Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel", "The Poet and the Peasant", "The Robe of Peace", "The Girl and the Graft", "The Call of the Tame", "The Unknown Quantity", "The Thing's the Play", "A Ramble in Aphasia", "A Municipal Report", "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia", "The Girl and the Habit", "Proof of the Pudding", "Past One at Rooney's", "The Venturers", "The Duel", "'What You Want'"
  • Whirligigs (1910), collection of 24 short stories:
    "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation", "Girl", "Sociology in Serge and Straw", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "The Marry Month of May", "A Technical Error", "Suite Homes and Their Romance", "The Whirligig of Life", "A Sacrifice Hit", "The Roads We Take [ru]", "A Blackjack Bargainer", "The Song and the Sergeant", "One Dollar's Worth", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy's Burglar", "A Chaparral Christmas Gift", "A Little Local Colour", "Georgia's Ruling", "Blind Man's Holiday", "Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches"
  • Sixes and Sevens (1911), collection of 25 short stories:
    "The Last of the Troubadours", "The Sleuths", "Witches' Loaves", "The Pride of the Cities", "Holding Up a Train", "Ulysses and the Dogman", "The Champion of the Weather", "Makes the Whole World Kin", "At Arms with Morpheus", "A Ghost of a Chance", "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel", "The Door of Unrest", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", "Let Me Feel Your Pulse", "October and June", "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel", "New York by Camp Fire Light", "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes", "The Lady Higher Up", "The Greater Coney", "Law and Order", "Transformation of Martin Burney", "The Caliph and the Cad", "The Diamond of Kali", "The Day We Celebrate"
  • Rolling Stones (1912), collection of
    23 short stories: "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear", "Helping the Other Fellow", "The Marionettes", "The Marquis and Miss Sally", "A Fog in Santone", "The Friendly Call", "A Dinner at ———", "Sound and Fury" (1903), "Tictocq", "Tracked to Doom", "A Snapshot at the President", "An Unfinished Christmas Story", "The Unprofitable Servant", "Aristocracy Versus Hash", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "A Strange Story", "Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled", "An Apology", "Lord Oakhurst's Curse", "Bexar Scrip No. 2692.", "Queries and Answers"
    12 poems:
    "The Pewee", "Nothing to say", "The Murderer"
    Some Postscripts: "Two Portraits", "A Contribution", "The Old Farm", "Vanity", "The Lullaby Boy", "Chanson de Bohême", "Hard to Forget", "Drop a Tear in This Slot", "Tamales"
    letters: "Some Letters"
  • Waifs and Strays (1917), collection of 12 short stories:
    "The Red Roses of Tonia", "Round The Circle", "The Rubber Plant's Story", "Out of Nazareth", "Confessions of a Humorist", "The Sparrows in Madison Square", "Hearts and Hands", "The Cactus", "The Detective Detector", "The Dog and the Playlet", "A Little Talk About Mobs", "The Snow Man"
  • O. Henryana (1920), collection of 7 short stories:
    "The Crucible", "A Lunar Episode", "Three Paragraphs", "Bulger's Friend", "A Professional Secret", "The Elusive Tenderloin", "The Struggle of the Outliers"
  • Postscripts (1923), collection of 103 short stories, 26 poems and 4 articles:
    "The Sensitive Colonel Jay", "Taking No Chances", "A Matter of Loyalty", "The Other Side of It", "Journalistically Impossible", "The Power of Reputation", "The Distraction of Grief", "A Sporting Interest", "Had A Use for It", "The Old Landmark", "A Personal Insult", "Toddlekins" (poem), "Reconciliation", "Buying a Piano", "Too Late", "Nothing to say" (poem), "'Goin Home fur Christmas'" (poem), "Just a Little Damp", "Her Mysterious Charm", "Convinced", "His Dilemma", "Something for Baby" (poem), "Some Day", "A Green Hand", "A Righteous Outburst", "Getting at the Facts", "Just for a Change" (poem), "Too Wise", "A Fatal Error", "Prompt" (poem), "An Opportunity Declined", "Correcting a Great Injustice", "A Startling Demonstration", "Leap Year Advice" (article), "After Supper", "His Only Opportunity", "Getting Acquainted", "Answers to Inquiries" (article), "City Peril", "Hush Money", "Relieved", "No Time to Lose", "A Villainous Trick", "A Forced March" (poem), "Book Review" (article), "A Conditional Pardon", "Inconsistency" (poem), "Bill Nye", "To a Portrait" (poem), "A Guarded Secret", "A Pastel", "Jim" (poem), "Board and Ancestors", "An X-Ray Fable", "A Universal Favorite", "Spring" (poem), "The Sporting Editor on Culture", "A Question of Direction", "The Old Farm" (poem), "Willing to Compromise", "Ridiculous", "Guessed Everything Else", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "Lucky Either Way", "The Bad Man", "Slight Mistake", "Delayed", "A Good Story Spoiled", "Revenge", "No Help for It", "Riley's Luck" (poem), "Not So Much a Tam Fool", "A Guess-Proof Mystery Story", "Futility" (poem), "Wounded Veteran", "Her Ruse", "Why Conductors Are Morose", "The Pewee" (poem), "'Only to Lie-'" (poem), "The Sunday Excursionist", "Decoration Day", "Charge of the White Brigade" (poem), "An Inspiration", "Coming To Him", "His Pension", "Winner", "Hungry Henry's Ruse", "A Proof Of Love" (poem), "One Consolation", "An Unsuccessful Experiment", "Superlatrives" (poem), "By Easy Stages", "Even Worse", "The Shock", "The Cynic", "Speaking of Big Winds", "An Original Idea", "Calculations", "A Valedictory", "Solemn Thoughts", "Explaining It", "Her Failing", "A Disagreement", "An E for a Knee" (poem), "The Unconquerable" (poem), "An Expensive Veracity", "Grounds for Uneasiness", "It Covers Errors" (poem), "Recognition", "His Doubt", "A Cheering Thought", "What It Was", "Vanity" (poem), "Identified", "The Apple", "How It Started", "How Red Conlin Told the Widow", "Why He Hesitated", "Turkish Questions" (poem), "Somebody Lied", "Marvelous", "The Confession of a Murderer", "Get Off the Earth" (poem), "The Stranger's Appeal", "The Good Boy", "The Colonel's Romance", "A Narrow Escape", "A Year's Supply", "Eugene Field" (poem), "Slightly Mixed", "Knew What Was Needed", "Some Ancient News Notes" (article), "A Sure Method"
  • O. Henry Encore (1939), collection of 27 short stories, 7 sketches and 10 poems:
    1. Part one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Father", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski's Hair", "A Mystery of Many Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Character", "A Houston Romance", "The Legend of San Jacinto", "Binkley's Practical School of Journalism", "A New Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Did It", "Nothing New Under the Sun", "Led Astray", "A Story for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The Barber Talks", "Barber Shop Adventure"
    2. Part two. Sketches: "Did You See the Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When the Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New Year's Eve and Now it Came to Houston", "'Watchman, What of the Night?'", "Newspaper Poets"
    3. Part three. Newspaper Poetry: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Choice", "'Little Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?'", "Last Fall of the Alamo"

Uncollected short stories:

  • "Tictocq, the Great French Detective" (1894)
  • "Tictocq, the Great French Detective; or, A Soubrette's Diamonds" (1894)
  • "A Blow All 'Round" (1895)
  • "A Chicago Proposal" (1895)
  • "A Fishy Story" (1895)
  • "A Foretaste" (1895)
  • "A Literal Caution" (1895)
  • "A Philadelphia Diagnosis" (1895)
  • "A Thousand Dollar Poem, was what the Literary Judgment of the Business Manager Lost for the Paper" (1895)
  • "All Right" (1895)
  • "And Put Up a Dime" (1895)
  • "Arrived" (1895)
  • "As Her Share" (1895)
  • "Ballad of the Passionate Eye" (1895)
  • "Cheaper in Quantities" (1895)
  • "Didn't Want Him Back" (1895)
  • "Do You Know?" (1895)
  • "Enlarging His Field" (1895)
  • "Entirely Successful" (1895)
  • "Extremes Met" (1895)
  • "False to His Colors" (1895)
  • "Family Pride" (1895)
  • "He Was Behind With His Board" (1895)
  • "Her Reckoning" (1895)
  • "His Last Chance" (1895)
  • "Making the Most of It" (1895)
  • "Might Be" (1895)
  • "Military or Millinery?" (1895)
  • "No Chestnuts Were Served" (1895)
  • "No Earlier" (1895)
  • "Not Hers" (1895)
  • "Not Official Statistics, However" (1895)
  • "Palmistry" (1895)
  • "Prodigality" (1895)
  • "Professional, But Doubtful" (1895)
  • "Prudent Precautions" (1895)
  • "Same Thing" (1895)
  • "Self Conceit" (1895)
  • "Silver Question Settled" (1895)
  • "Sunday Journalism, Memoranda of the Sabbath Editor of the New York Daily for Next Sunday's Contents" (1895)
  • "The Fate It Deserved" (1895)
  • "The Man at the Window" (1895)
  • "The Modern Kind" (1895)
  • "The New Hero" (1895)
  • "The Odor Located" (1895)
  • "The Teacher Taught" (1895)
  • "The White Feather" (1895)
  • "Uncle Sam's Wind" (1895)
  • "Whole Handfuls" (1895)
  • "Will She Fight as She Jokes? Here Are Some Translations of Recent Spanish Humour" (1895)
  • "Yellow Specials, Latest Style of News Write Ups adopted by the sulphur-hued journals" (1895)
  • "A Tragedy" (1896, as The Postman)
  • "At an Auction" (1896)
  • "Telegram" (1896)
  • "His Courier" (1902)
  • "The Flag" (1902)
  • "The Guardian of the Scutcheon" (1903, as Olivier Henry)
  • "The Lotus and the Cockleburrs" (1903)
  • "The Point of the Story" (1903, as Sydney Porter)
  • "The Quest of Soapy" (1908)
  • "A Christmas Pi" (1909, as O. H-nry)
  • "Adventures in Neurasthenia" (1910)
  • "Last Story" (1910)

Poems

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Uncollected poems:

  • "Already Provided" (1895)
  • "Archery" (1895)
  • "At Cockcrow" (1895)
  • "Honeymoon Vapourings" (1895)
  • "Never, Until Now" (1895)
  • "Ornamental" (1895)
  • "The Imported Brand" (1895)
  • "The Morning glory" (1895)
  • "The White Violet" (1895)
  • "To Her" (XRay) Photograph" (1895)
  • "Unseeing" (1895)
  • "Promptings" (1899)
  • "Sunset in the Far North" (1901)
  • "The Captive" (1901)
  • "Uncaptured Joy" (1901)
  • "April" (1903)
  • "Auto Bugle Song" (1903)
  • "June" (1903)
  • "Remorse" (1903)
  • "Spring in the City" (1903)
  • "To a Gibson Girl" (1903)
  • "Two Chapters" (1903)
  • "A Floral Valentine" (1905)

Non-fiction

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  • Later Definitions (1895)
  • The Reporter's Private Lexicon (1903)
  • Letter 1883 (1912)
  • Letters 1884, 1885 (1912)
  • Letters 1905 (1914)
  • Letters from Prison to his Daughter Margaret (1916)
  • Letter 1901 (1917)


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