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🗓️ 25 April 2021
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0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short stories and tales. This is your host |
0:34.6 | John Hagenorn and today a great story from O Henry called Between Rounds. First a |
0:40.7 | little background on O Henry. I'm going to give you a couple of paragraphs from an article written by Judith Dunford back in 1990 about O'Henry. |
0:48.0 | It was called the man who invented Manhattan. |
0:51.0 | For most of this century, she wrote, and often against the starkest evidence New York City has persisted and seen itself as |
0:57.8 | Baghdad on the subway an Arabian night swirl, motion, tough characters with soft hearts, soft characters |
1:05.5 | with sturdy hearts, tinsul, tears, and laughter. |
1:09.6 | This is largely O'Henry's doing. |
1:11.9 | It was his stories. |
1:13.2 | His portrait of the city in the decade ending in 1910. |
1:16.9 | It's shop girls named Delia, Dulsey. |
1:20.2 | It's derelict's and cops. |
1:22.0 | It's struggling, forever loyal couples. |
1:24.0 | It's ambitious artist and show girls. |
1:26.0 | It's neighborhood streets and parks. |
1:28.0 | It's boarding houses and furnished rooms. |
1:31.0 | It's sports and swells that gave New York much of the jaunty, plucky, |
1:36.1 | rafish image it wears to this day. |
1:40.0 | Oh Henry's stories of this New York go on forever. |
1:42.8 | By 1920 nearly 5 million copies of his books had been sold in the United States. |
1:47.8 | There have been dozens of radio and stage dramatizations |
1:50.5 | and motion picture versions of his stories. |
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