'My literature has been “The Pit”, Frank Norris’s wheat hoarding story, and the two books of riff-raff, very tangy, cynical and amusing, by O. Henry. One story, "Roads of Destiny" struck me as first-class, but the majority of his work, though clever, is too topical to last very long.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden Print: Book
'Lunched alone at the hotel, reading with indecent hilarity O. Henry's "Gentle Grafter", as good short stories as you want; almost worthy to rank with Maupassant, Kipling and Wells.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book
'Wrote up, finished O. Henry's "Cabbages and Kings" (an inferior S. American "South Wind" but good) and some more G. [Geoffrey] Scott. Bed 10.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book
'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but
collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good
as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ...
One feels so isolated all alone with a very
sick girl. Every one is away and I want the sea—the sea. Went for a walk in Kensington
Gardens. Read Bertrand Russell, Problems of
Philosophy. Remembered my throat paint. Tried
it, did Eleanor good. We sat & watched her
cough up matter into the basalt bowl. Normally
it would have made us both sick, as it was we
were wild with interest.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Franeis Butts Print: Book
