The Gift of the Magi
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Publisher Description
“The Gift of the Magi” is the sentimental story about Mr. James Dillingham and his wife, Della, who were a marriage couple living in a modest apartment. On Christmas Eve, with only $1.87 in the pocket, and desperated to find a gift for Jim, Della saled her hair for $20 to a nearby hairdresser named Madame Sofronie, and eventually found a platinum pocket watch fob chain for Jim's watch. In the evening, when Jim returned at home and saw Della without hairs, Jim told her, that he has sold his watch to get the money to buy present for Della - an assortment of expensive hair accessories…
Enjoy “The Gift of the Magi”, the great example of Henry’s writer masterpiece and American classical literature!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
O. Henry's classic tale of Della and Jim, the struggling newlyweds so anxious to give each other a Christmas gift that each sells the one thing the other holds most dear, receives an oddly lifeless treatment here. Heyer's meticulously detailed illustrations are pretty but stilted; the characters look like mannequins. The rueful Jim fares better than poor prematurely middle-aged Della, who at times looks more like his mother than his wife. Still, the story is as touching as ever, and neither time nor mediocre artwork can dim its glory. All ages.
