O. Henry

What You Want A Short Story By O Henry

Short Story What You Want By O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone. In different masquerades, the streets, bazaars, and walled houses of the occidental city of romance were filled with the same kind […]

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The Gift of the Magi

Literature, Short Stories

By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times

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