The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Probably O’Henry’s most well-known story, The Gift of the Magi, originally published in the collection, The Four Million, published in 1906. 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…

The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry

I was thinking the other day I don’t have near enough O. Henry. in fact, I don’t have any. Time to fix that. Why not start with one of his best stories, the Ransom of Red Chief. The story first appeared in the July 6, 1907 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It has been…