The Gift of the Magi is a well-known but touching short story about a loving couple who live impoverished. The woman sells her long, beautiful hair in order to purchase a chain for her husband's watch. He sells his watch to be magnificent hair combs for his wife. The two could have cried about it, but they reacted with resignation. The Last Leaf was also sorrowful. A young woman is ill with pneumonia and is waiting to die when the last leaf on the ivy tree leaves, but it doesn't, and she recovers. The painter living below painted a fake leaf at the window but contracted pneumonia whilst doing so on a rainy day and dies. These twelve short stories are completely unique, funny, sad, trivial, but all have this kind of fluid narration and a little surprise ending. Delighted to have read this little book.
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