The confession of the humorist O. Henry

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1. “Confessions of a Comedian” O. Henry in Brief Content The hero-narrator is famous for his sense of humor. Natural resourcefulness is successfully combined with training, jokes are, as a rule, innocuous character, and he becomes a universal favorite. Once a hero receives a proposal to send something for the department of humor in the well-known weekly. His material is accepted, and soon he is […]...
2. Biography About Henry (William Sidney Porter) (O. Henry) [pseudonym; real name – William Sidney Porter (11.9.1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, 5.6.1910, New York), an American writer. After graduating from school, he served in a pharmacy, received a diploma of a pharmacist. In 1894, the editor-publisher of a humorous weekly, in which he published his first literary experiments. He worked as a cashier-accountant […]...
3. Summary of the “Confession” by Russo Jean-Jacques best But all that she does for him in this direction, in his own words, is lost work. The guy with his beloved arrived in Paris. Leo Nikolayevich thick in confession, the author’s own research is described subtly and intelligibly, Love, respect, sincere frankness were the creators of my celebration, depicts the genre of his meeting […]...
4. Rousseau’s “Confession” in Brief Content “I told the truth.” If anyone knows anything contrary to what has been said here, he knows only lies and slander. “ His first misfortune, the author of these lines, calls his own birth, which cost his mother’s life. The child grows, showing the shortcomings inherent in his age; “I was a chatterbox, gourmet, a […]...
5. Summary Confession Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confession “I told the truth: if anyone knows anything contrary to what is said here, he knows only lies and slander.” His first misfortune, the author of these lines, calls his own birth, which cost his mother’s life. The child grows, showing the shortcomings inherent in his age; “I was a chatterbox, gourmet, […]...
6. The Confession of the Son of the Century A. de Musset Confession of the Son of the Century “In order to write the history of your life, you must first live this life, that’s why I do not write about myself” – these are the opening words of the author, who conceived with his story to recover from the “monstrous moral illness,” the […]...
7. Summary Green Henry Gottfried Keller Green Henry The action takes place at the beginning of the last century in Switzerland. One fine day in the village of Glattfelden, which is located somewhere in the north of Switzerland, there is a handsome and beautiful stranger dressed in a green frock coat. This is Master Leia. Once upon a time […]...
8. “Confession of the son of the century” Musset in brief “To write a story of your life, you must first live this life, so I do not write about myself” – these are the opening words of the author, who planned to cure his story of “monstrous moral illness”, the illness of the century that struck his contemporaries after the Revolution of 1793 and rout […]...
9. “Green Henry” Keller in summary The action takes place at the beginning of the last century in Switzerland. One fine day in the village of Glattfelden, which is located somewhere in the north of Switzerland, there is a handsome and beautiful stranger dressed in a green frock coat. This is Master Leia. Once upon a time he left his native […]...
10. “Trust that burst” O. Henry in summary Once the heroes of the cycle “Noble crook” Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker, who, according to Peters, “each dollar in the hand of another… perceived as a personal insult, if he could not perceive it as a prey,” returned from Mexico after another successful scam and stopped in a Texas settlement called the Bird City, […]...
11. Summary of “Confession” Rousseau jak-jak – confession – a brief summary of the work, narration and retelling of the plot. Possibility to download or read online. He decided to radically change his whole life and was carried away by country walks, fencing and hunting. The brief contents of the Scopen rogue are the brief contents of the chapters […]...
12. Brief History of Henry Esmond W. M. Thackeray History of Henry Esmond Events take place in England at the very beginning of the 18th century, during the reign of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty. Anna does not have children, and therefore after her death, the throne must go to representatives of another dynasty – Hanover. However, the […]...
13. “The History of Henry Esmond” by Thackeray in brief summary Events take place in England at the very beginning of the eighteenth century, during the reign of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty. Anna does not have children, and therefore after her death, the throne must go to representatives of another dynasty – Hanover. However, the court party and the military circles want […]...
14. Summary Chair of Philanthromathematics O. Henry O. Henry Department of Philanthropology After another successful scam, Peters and Tucker decide to become philanthropists. Once in the provincial town of Floresville, they, with the consent of local residents, open the “World University” there, and they themselves become his trustees. On the first of September, the newly-opened educational institution hospitably opens the doors to […]...
15. “Department of Philanthropic Mathematics” O. Henry in summary After another successful scam, Peters and Tucker decide to become philanthropists. Once in the provincial town of Floresville, they, with the consent of local residents, open the “World University” there, and they themselves become his trustees. On the first of September, the newly-opened educational institution hospitably opens the doors to students from five states, and […]...
16. Biography of Henry Armstrong Henry Armstrong – American boxer, was born in Columbus, Mississippi. At birth in the biography of Henry Armstrong was given the name of Henry Jackson. The athlete began his professional career in 1931. Soon he became known as a strong, tireless boxer. Armstrong won the title of champion in a very lightweight title in 1936. […]...
17. Summary Europeans Henry James Henry James Europeans Brother and sister – Felix Young and Baroness Eugenia Munster – for the first time in their life come to their mother’s homeland in America. They grew up in Europe, feel Europeans and anxiously await a meeting with the Wentworth family – uncles, cousins ​​and cousins. Felix is ​​the first to get […]...
18. Biography of Garik Kharlamov Garik Kharlamov – humorist, actor, producer. Garik was born in Moscow on February 29, 1980. In total, the actor has three names. Andrei was named at the birth, Igor – three months after being taken from the hospital. Now almost everyone calls him Garik – the name came to life from school. Back in the […]...
19. Summary Henry IV Pirandello L. Pirandello Henry IV The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the 20th century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV, but to the right and left of the throne – two large modern portraits, one of which depicts a man in […]...
20. Henry Ford Biography Henry Ford is one of America’s foremost industrialists, radically changing the principle of the assembly line of automobiles. In 1908 Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car and after that continued to improve his way of conveyor assembly of cars, which later fundamentally changed the entire industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of […]...
21. “Peaches” O. Henry in summary Honeymoon in full swing. Little McGarry, a welterweight boxer who does not know himself in the ring, is blissful. He is ready to fulfill any desire of his young wife. And when she cooed: “Darling, I would eat a peach,” he gets up and follows the peaches. But the Italian at the corner of the […]...
22. Questions and answers to the work of O. Henry What is remarkable about the life of the writer O. Henry? The real name of this American writer is William Sidney Porter. He lived a short life – only forty-eight years. But it was full of events, which could be enough for two lives. His mother, he did not remember, and his father gave the […]...
23. “Henry IV” Pirandello in short summary The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the 20th century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV, but to the right and left of the throne – two large modern portraits, one of which depicts a man in the costume of Henry […]...
24. Painting by Repin “Refusal of Confession” Confessing oneself in deeds, not counting them as sins, the revolutionary refuses, so you can briefly describe the plot of the canvas of the great painter. Only two people are depicted in the picture, and how much powerful dynamics lurks in their poses and facial expressions. Each of them told me a whole story, which […]...
25. Summary The young years of King Henry IV Henry Mann Young years of King Henry IV Part I. The Pyrenees of the Boy called Henry. The mother instructed Henry to take care of the relative and the educator, so that the son would grow up, as the children grow up among the people. He lived in the castle of Coarraz, and the area […]...
26. Summary “Henry IV” After false reports of victory, Earl of Northumberland finally learns that his son Hotsper was killed in the Battle of Shrewsbury and that the Royal Army, led by the second son of King John Lancaster and Earl Westmoreland, is heading towards him. The Earl decides to unite his troops with the forces of the rebellious […]...
27. “The young years of King Henry IV” Mann in brief summary XVI century. Henry, a boy from a noble French family who grew up in a provincial Bearna, after passing through the dangers of the St. Bartholomew’s night, trials and intrigue, becomes King of France Henry IV. Part I. Pyrenees The boy’s name was Heinrich. The mother instructed Henry to take care of the relative and […]...
28. O. Henry’s “Jimmy Valentine’s Address” in Brief Content The famous safe burglar Jimmy Valentine, once again going to freedom, quietly taken for the old. There is a series of daring robberies, losses are significant, and the evidence is negligible. The case takes such a serious turn that the investigation is entrusted to the famous detective Ben Price, which allows the safe owners to […]...
29. Summary King Henry IV William Shakespeare William Shakespeare King Henry IV Part one The source of the plot were several anonymous plays and the chronicles of Hollshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated quite freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV form, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is “Richard II”, and the […]...
30. What is confession. How to be tolerant to representatives of other faiths. Religion in Ukraine Despite the fact that the traditional religion in Ukraine is Christianity, religious life in our country is very diverse. You know that each of the world religions has several currents and is represented by different churches. Thus, in 1054 Christianity was divided into two currents – the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox. Today in Ukraine […]...
31. “King Henry IV” by Shakespeare in short summary Part one The source of the plot were several anonymous plays and the chronicles of Hollshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated quite freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV form, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is “Richard II”, and the end is “Henry V”. All […]...
32. Henry Theodore Belle. Biography The tragic consequences of the Second World War for the country that unleashed it. By the time of its defeat, Germany was the same ruined state as the countries to which she had raised her hand. A large part of its territory was covered with ruins, many foreign troops were in charge of its operations […]...
33. O. Henry, the leader of the redskins, in brief Two adventurers – the narrator Sam and Bill Driscoll – have already earned something, and now they need a little more to go into speculation in land. They decide to kidnap the son of one of the wealthiest inhabitants of a small town in the state of Alabama, Colonel Ebenezer Dorsett. The heroes do not […]...
34. Summary of “The Gifts of the Magi” O. Henry The story “Gifts of the Magi” was written in 1906. Since then, just over a hundred years have passed. During this time, language, life, culture, the Revolution, the formation and disintegration of the USSR changed. With certainty, we can say that Henry used several unknown words for us. Therefore, in order not to find myself […]...
35. Summary “The Pharaoh and the Chant” by Henry Homeless vagrant Soapy merz on the bench in the park. Winter came, it was necessary to think about housing. He wanted to go to a hospitable prison, where he had enough food and a roof over his head for three months. For several years he spent the winter there. There were charitable institutions, but Sopi […]...
36. “The Last Sheet” by O. Henry in Brief Contents Two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, rent an apartment on the top floor of a house in New York’s Greenwich Village, where artists have long settled. In November, Johnsy becomes pneumonia. The verdict of the doctor is disappointing: “She has one chance out of ten, and if she wants to live herself.” But Johnsy just […]...
37. The novel by Henry Bell, “The Eyes of a Clown” “Poets walk on their heels On the edge of the knife and cut In the blood of his sick souls. “ V. Vysotsky Heinrich Böll can be called a writer depicting a “little man.” In the novels “The house without a master,” “Where have you been, Adam?”, “Billiards at half past nine” describes ordinary people, […]...
38. Biography of Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Longfellow) Henry Wadsworth (27/2.1807, Portland, Maine, 24.3.1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts), American poet. Son of a lawyer. After graduating from Bowdoyne College, he completed his education in Europe (1826-29); professor of literature at Harvard University (1836-54). The first poems were published in 1820. Collections of poems by L. – “Night Voices” (1839), “Poems about slavery” (1842, […]...
39. Biography of Henry Belle Heinrich Belle is a German writer, novelist and playwright. Belle represents a critical, anti-militaristic image of modern society in the collection of skilful short stories. Such works include “The Traveler, when you come to the Spa…”, Traveler, If You Come to Spa 1957), the novel “Where have you been, Adam?” , Adam, Where Art Thou? […]...
40. First Plantagenets. Henry II. Richard the Lionheart William the Conqueror made England a powerful state. But it became more powerful under the dynasty Plantagenet. With the death in 1135 of King Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, the Norman dynasty ended. A fierce struggle for power broke out in England. Barons no longer obeyed the king, built their own […]...