Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465516689
A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781454944393
This beautifully designed paperback featuring 2 to 3 Christmas-themed stories by a world-renowned classic writer will make the perfect stocking-stuffer purchase. This paperback will feature 2 to 3 Christmas-themed stories by the author, led by his much-loved classic "The Gift of the Magi." This book will be accompanied by three similar titles: Christmas with L.M. Montgomery, Christmas with Charles Dickens, andChristmas with Louisa May Alcott. The book will feature elegantly designed covers and endpapers, quality paper stock for interiors, and card-stock covers (with flaps).
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Apple Classics
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Children's stories.
ISBN : 9780590451680
A collection of favorite holiday tales features O. Henry's timeless classic, "The Gift of the Magi," and stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, and Kate Douglas Wiggin. Original.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8726701200
"It possessed a quantity of jet-black hair, a pair of extremely frank, deep-brown eyes and a laugh that rippled across the prairie like the sound of a hidden brook. The name of it was Rosita McMullen..." Though Rosita has many suitors, she ultimately chooses the young cattleman Madison Lane and the two are wed on Christmas Day. Rejected lover Jonny McRoy crashes the wedding and fires off his handgun yelling, "I'll give you a Christmas present!" But luckily he is deterred by the armed guests. It's only a matter of time, however, until Christmas time comes around once more and it's McRoy's turn to bring presents... American short story master O. Henry is best known for his pithy, witty scores and surprise endings. In doing so he made commonplace experiences extraordinary and memorable. His work has been immortalised in the popular 1952 film 'O. Henry's Full House' starring Fred Allen, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Monroe and Jeanne Crain. William Sidney Porter (1862-1919), known simply as O. Henry, was a prolific American author of humorous literary pieces. His fame came exceptionally quickly and he became a bestselling author of short story collections. Perhaps the most famous of these are, 'Cabbages and Kings,' 'The Voice of the City' and 'Strictly Business.' The immensity of O. Henry's impact on the American short story genre for time to come is evidenced by the fact that an annual award in his name is given out each year in the United States. O. Henry's work is a must read for fans of Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant and Anton Chekhov.
Author : Barry Moser
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9780316585439
Based on the classic story in which a husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.
Author : Henry O.
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3849647080
"Christmas Classics" is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. Besides best-known classics we also offer a huge variety of out-of-print books and titles long forgotten. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. A plantation below the city is the setting for a climax in "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking." By means of a freight-car, Dick arrives in the "big, almsgiving, long-suffering city of the South, the cold weather paradise of tramps." After a cautious survey that includes the levee "pimpled with dark bulks of merchandise," the long line of Algiers across the river, the tugs, the ferries and the Italian luggers, Dick climbs warily down and starts, whistling, toward Lafayette Square to meet a pal. But a friendly policeman warns Dick of a new and inhospitable city ordinance, and he departs hastily for the open road. A stall keeper in the French Market gives him breakfast, and he is almost happy until Chalmette with its "vast and bewildering industry" frightens him and drives him along a country road hemmed in on one side by the high green levee and on the other by a mysterious, frog-haunted, mosquito infested marsh ...
Author : O. Henry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Texas
ISBN : 9781892588340
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402709883
With this handsomely illustrated edition of O. Henry's best, children can now enjoy all the surprising twists and turns of six favorite tales by the master of the short story: "The Gift of the Magi," "Two Thanksgiving-Day Gentlemen," "The Last Leaf," "Mammon and the Archer," "After Twenty Years", and "A Retrieved Reformation." Noted scholar John Hollander provides the thoughtful introduction and insightful annotations, and illustrator Miles Hyman brings the stories to life in nostalgic pictures that evoke an America gone by.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Peter Ekstrom
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780573681325
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation during the Christmas season.
