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Notes 4. Critically analyse A Lickpenny Lover.
5. Analyse the writing style and themes in O Henry’s works.
6. O Henry has the reader under suspense until the last sentence. Elaborate.
7. Give a stylistic analysis of A Lickpenny Lover.

8. Write a note on O Henry’s other popular works such as The Gift of Magi.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. William Sidney Porter 2. Greensboro, North Carolina
3. Banana republic 4. 1905
5. Money is not everything

12.10 Further Readings

Books Best Short Stories. (2002). Courier Dover Publications, USA.

Current-García, Eugene. (1993). O Henry: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne
Publications.

Online links http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/sorea-pragmatics.pdf
http://literarism.blogspot.in/2011/02/themes-styles-techniques-of-ohenry.html
http://samplepapersonline.blogspot.in/2009/04/o-henry.html
http://thursdayschylde.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/o-henry-and-the-american-
spirit/
http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/pubhist.html

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