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Title: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, Kevin King ISBN: 0-671-64706-7 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Juv) Pub. Date: September, 1988 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sweet story - cute size.
Comment: "Gift of the Magi" is a wonderful story (my favorite by O. Henry), and this little book makes a great stocking stuffer for the little ones. I recommend.
Rating: 5
Summary: exquisite little story
Comment: Especially when you are young, short stories seem like they should have some tremendous payoff at the end, if for no other reason than to justify their very brevity. Or perhaps that is simply a function of the fact that we all grow up reading the great tales of O. Henry. And of all those stories and of all those shocking payoffs, there is perhaps no other twist quite like the one at the end of Gift of the Magi.
Jim and Della Young are a wretchedly poor young married couple. Della has just $1.87 to buy a Christmas gift for Jim and between them they have precious little of any value:
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out of the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
Well, you either know the rest or else I wouldn't want to ruin it for you. Suffice it to say that O. Henry leaves us with the following thought:
The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men-who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
This exquisite little story beautifully captures the spirit of the season. It's one for the whole family to enjoy as, with warmth and wit, it imparts the age old lesson about it being better to give than to receive.
GRADE: A+
Rating: 4
Summary: An encouragement, exquisite story
Comment: The Gift of Magi is an O. Henryfs classic Christmas story that is about a couple, Jim and Della, who loved each other. They were very poor people, but they wanted to buy a Christmas gift for each other. They did not have enough money, so they decided to sell their important things to buy a gift. Della wanted to buy a gold chain for Jimfs gold watch, but she didnft have enough money. Instead, she cut her hair that was her pride, and sold it. And Jim, whose watch was great and really expensive, sold it to buy the combs that Della had wanted for a long time. So as a result, their Christmas day was not happy at all. This storyfs ending is not happy, but I like this storyfs classic theme and plot. I think that this book has good theme and plot though they are simple. This is interesting and a well organized story. We can learn cultures of American from reading O. Henryfs short stories about Americanes.
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Title: A Christmas Carol (Scholastic Classics) by Charles Dickens, Karen Hesse ISBN: 0439101336 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Noah's Ark by Heinz Janisch, Lisbeth Zwerger, Rosemary Lanning ISBN: 1558587845 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Swan Lake by Lisbeth Zwerger, Elizabeth Zwerger, Marianne Martens, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich Lebedinoe Ozero Tchaikovsky ISBN: 0735817022 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, Michael Dooling ISBN: 0688145817 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry ISBN: 0486270610 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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