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A great short story by O. Henry, from the "Four Million". An humoristic one, featuring New yorkers. O. Henry was the greatest short story writer of his day. His characters may be from America at the turn of the century but their foibles and eccentricities are known to us all, irrespective of culture or time.

One of the famous, and the bleakest short story by O. Henry.The basic ironic plot can be summarized in a sentence - a young man commits suicide in the same room where a young woman for whom he has vainly searched killed herself, but it is the musty atmosphere of the room and the suggestion that every place bears the traces of the lives that have inhabited it that makes the story so compelling.

"Cœurs et croix" est une nouvelle de William Sydney Porter (dit O. Henry), extraite du recueil de nouvelles "Contes du Far West". Avec humour et sensibilité, cette nouvelle traite du couple, et du pouvoir.

"The Cop and the Anthem" is a short story by O. Henry. It includes several of the classic elements of an O. Henry story, including a setting in New York City, an empathetic look at the state of mind of a member of the lower class, and an ironic ending.

"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter) about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

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Listeners are invited to sit back and enjoy this collection of classic Yuletide tales....

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection, featuring stories from O. Henry, L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, and many more. In this beautifully packaged anthology...

In this adaptation of The Gift of the Magi, Laura and David want to buy Christmas presents for each other, but they don't have the money. We follow Laura as figures out a way to buy David a present he'll truly love, and we learn how love and selflessness come to the forefront during the holidays.

O. Henrys "Das Geschenk der Weisen" ist eine der bekanntesten und schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten. Eva Mattes liest diese wundervolle Geschichte über ein junges, verliebtes Paar mit wenig Geld, das sich zu Weihnachten aber dennoch ganz besondere Geschenke macht.

Recueil de nouvelles souvent drôles, mais aussi émouvantes, dressant de beaux portraits d'hommes et de femmes, qui vivent à New York au début du XXe siècle.

Les nouvelles aventures de Jeff Peters est composé de cinq nouvelles, plutôt humoristiques qui relatent les aventures et mésaventures de petits escrocs.

Une des nouvelles les plus célèbres de O. Henry, extraite du recueil New York Tic Tac.

Il s'agit d'une nouvelle, extraite de "New York Tic Tac", qui met en scène un chien, qui monologue sur sa condition de chien bâtard dans un foyer à New York, et de ses rêves de liberté pour lui, et son maître, qu'il trouve esclave de sa grosse maîtresse, toute-puissante. On retrouve l'humour et l'esprit satirique de O. Henry.

On retrouve tout l'humour de l'auteur, et son empathie pour les êtres humains, pour ces pauvres gens, un peu marlous, et très combinards qui rusent pour survivre dans la Grande Pomme.

Une très jolie nouvelle, où l'on voit un jeune homme chercher le fantôme d'un amour disparu dans la chambre d'un hôtel meublé.

Ce sont six nouvelles humoristiques du grand auteur américain, O. Henry, nouvelles qui mettent en scène de jeunes gens rivaux en amour, prêts à tout pour gagner celle qu'ils convoitent.

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). He was a master of the short story with a surprise ending. In this story, part of the collection titled The Four Million, two old friends have made a promise to meet at a certain New York City corner after 20 years of separation. Will they each honor the agreement? What will they learn of their lives since they last saw each other?

Twenty classic tales featuring doctors, patients, feverish imaginations, sick minds and unwell bodies, including 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells, 'Room Number Ten' by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, 'Story of the Vanishing Patient' by Elia J. Peattie, 'The District Doctor' by Ivan Turgenev, 'Dead of Night' by W. F. Harvey, 'Cool Air' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt, 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton and more.

Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers, including: 'The Flying Man' by H. G. Wells, 'Between Rounds' by O. Henry, 'A School Story' by M. R. James, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Kate Chopin, 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells, 'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie, 'Royal Visitors' by E. F. Benson, 'The Stolen Bacillus' by H. G. Wells, 'The Story of Chugoro' by Lafcadio Hearn, 'One Law for the Rich' by Stacy Aumonier, 'My Enemy and Myself' by Vincent O'Sullivan and more.