and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Henry Awards, an annual anthology of short stories, was established in his honor. : The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories (The Worlds Best Reading) (9780895772664) by Henry, O. and his stories, such as 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'The Ransom of Red Chief', are still taught in schools. He is renowned for his wordplay and “twist” endings, yet his insight and compassion are also essential features of his style. Prabhat Prakashan, Foreign Language Study - 159 pages. Born in North Carolina, he achieved his greatest fame starting in his early forties, in New York. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, is the author of hundreds of short stories. A man waits for his old friend in After Twenty Years, honouring a pact made two decades earlier to meet on the same spot. Its more about social standing and the way people treat each other, and judge each other, than ghosts. Plot Summary: Jim and Della Dillingham are a poor, young married couple who dont have enough money to buy Christmas gifts. When a woman falls seriously ill in The Last Leaf, she comes to believe she will die when the remaining leaves on the tree outside her window drop much to the dismay of her beloved friends. The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories. In The Cop and the Anthem, a vagrant in search of warm lodgings for winter tries his best to be incarcerated but finds that no policeman will arrest him. The lengths to which they go in order to show their love through giving reveal unexpectedly how priceless it really is. The Gift of the Magi, one of this prolific author’s most famous tales, tells of a couple of modest means who discover that neither can afford to buy the other a Christmas present. Henry takes readers into the careworn lives of early twentieth-century New Yorkers. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

The gift of the magi and other stories