اُ. هنری

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

1862–1910گرینزبورو، کارولینای شمالیداستان کوتاهبا ترجمه‌ی فارسی

استاد داستان کوتاهِ آمریکایی، مشهور به پایان‌بندی‌های غافل‌گیرکننده و طنزِ تلخ. در نیویورک زیست و از مردم کوچه و بازار نوشت ـ از فروشنده‌ی فقیر تا کارمندِ کم‌مزد. مهم‌ترین آثارش «هدیه‌ی مجوسان»، «آخرین برگ» و «بعد از بیست سال» است.

داستان‌ها۲

The Gift of the Magi / هدیه‌ی مجوسان #oxford

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

۲۹ پاراگرافخواندن

After Twenty Years / پس از بیست سال #oxford

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de-peopled the streets.

۳۳ پاراگرافخواندن