The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
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Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner oftheir delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister andthe drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust.I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiologyclass. The most striking line of it was this:The shin-bone is the long-est bone in the hu-man bod-y.What an inestimable boon it would have been if all the corporeal and spiritual factspertaining to man had thus been tunefully and logically inculcated in our youthful minds!But what we gained in anatomy, music and philosophy was meagre.The other day I became confused. I needed a ray of light. I turned back to those schooldays for aid. But in all the nasal harmonies we whined forth from those hard benches Icould not recall one that treated of the voice of agglomerated mankind.In other words, of the composite vocal message of massed humanity.In other words, of the Voice of a Big City.Now, the individual voice is not lacking. We can understand the song of the poet, theripple of the brook, the meaning of the man who wants $5 until next Monday, theinscriptions on the tombs of the Pharaohs, the language of flowers, the step lively of theconductor, and the prelude of the milk cans at 4 A. M. Certain large-eared ones even assertthat they are wise to the vibrations of the tympanum produced by concussion of the airemanating from Mr. H. James. But who can comprehend the meaning of the voice of thecity?

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William Sydney Porter (1862 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry s short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. In his day, he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry stories were considerably more playful. His stories are also known for witty narration. Most of O. Henry s stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc. O. Henry s work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.

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William Sydney Porter (1862 -1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. In his day, he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry stories were considerably more playful. His stories are also known for witty narration. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc. O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.

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A collection of short stories that fully describe the place and people. O’Henry was a master at stealthily developing his characters within just a few pages of each short story. The last page, of course, is the complete revelation of the character’s motive...O’Henry’s signature surprise ending.

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