Gifts of the Magi. Henry O.

Bank employee William Sidney Porter spent three years in prison for a waste of banking funds, where, inspired by the stories of cellmates, and wrote his first story under the pseudonym O'Genry, who soon brought him glory. And the famous "Gifts of the Magi" were written after he came to the dying wife for Christmas. He managed to say goodbye to his beloved, and she - to give her husband the last gift - a gold chain for his watch. The woman did not know that he sold these very watches in order to purchase a ticket to his hometown for the proceeds.

Each novelty of incorrigible romance and the most brilliant storyteller of America is a brilliant and subtle humor, diomanship, an unpredictable denouement, and an unpredictable denouement, and Colorful heroes. The variety of stories included in the collection show the versatility of O'Genry's talent.