Can anyone tell me about O. Henry

O'Henry's best work is short stories**, such as "Voices of Love" and "The Police and the Hymn"."Furnished Rental Rooms"."The Gift of the Magi" and "The Last Vine Leaf" are all listed as the world's outstanding short stories**. One of the characteristics of his works is that they are novel in conception and witty in language, but the endings are often unexpected.

And we are most familiar with "The Police and the Hymn", "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Last Leaf".

All of them are included in the Chinese textbook. "The Last Leaf" depicts Washington.

The story that takes place between two young painters Sue and Jonesy and their neighbor Bellman in the ghetto.

The most withered field is described after a leaf

Jonesy fell ill with pneumonia.

The condition is getting worse and worse, but she pins the hope of her life on the last vine leaf outside the window. When this piece of ivy.

When the leaves fell, it was the end of her life. Her friend Sue, who was very sad when he found out, told the old painter Bellman about her thoughts. Bellman is a very hot-tempered and teasing drunkard who accomplishes nothing.

After hearing Jonesy's thoughts, he drew a vine leaf on a stormy night, and eventually caught a cold and contracted pneumonia and died. Jonesy, who knew nothing, saw the leaf outside the window, which never fell despite the wind and rain, so he developed the belief of life and tenaciously survived.

Even small people in difficult and difficult circumstances, under the pressure of life, can still show sincere friendship and make valuable sacrifices. It looks like an ordinary leaf, but it is more like a mirror, reflecting the kindness of the old man Bellman.

O. Henry (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, the father of modern American short stories and one of the world's three major masters of short stories.

His themes are mainly based on life in big cities in the United States, focusing on the small characters in big cities, with novel ideas, witty language, and often unexpected endings (i.e., "O. Henry-style epilogies"). His representative works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Leaf", "The Police and Hymns" and so on.

O. Henry has been hailed by critics as the Manhattan Essayist Laureate and the father of the modern American short story. His life was legendary, working as an apprentice pharmacy, a cattle herder, an accountant, a land clerk, a journalist, and a bank teller. His creations follow closely after Maupassant and Chekhov, and they are in a class of their own.

He has been hailed by critics as the Manhattan Crown prose writer and the father of the modern American short story. O. Henry is good at describing American society, especially the lives of New Yorkers. His works are novel in conception, witty in language, and often have surprising endings; Because of the description of many characters and the interest in life, it is known as "the humorous encyclopedia of American life".