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O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings. This collection includes "The Last Leaf", "The Love Philter of Ikey Schoenstein", "The Caliph", "Cupid and the Clock", "The Brief Debut of Tildy", "The Higher Abdication", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "One Dollar’s Worth", "Cupid a la Carte", "Girl", "Springtime a la Carte", "The Ethics of Pig", "The Social Triangle", "Witches Loaves", "The Romace of the Buys Broker", and more.

O. Henry wrote many stories, but this, the story of two "ultimate gifts", is his most famous.

Yellow Bird Project制作、世界の童話シリーズ第297話。大人も子どもも楽しめる童話オーディオブックを、多彩なキャストとBGMでお届けします。『重い肺炎で苦しむジョンジー。彼女はベッドの窓から見えるツタの葉に自分の運命を重ね、「その葉の最後の一枚が落ちた時、自分も死んでしまう」とつぶやきました。同室に暮らすスーは、彼女をなんとか元気づけようとしましたが、彼女の弱った心を救う術が思いつきません。最後の一葉(ひとは)が落ちるのは、もはや時間の問題でした・・』

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love.O. Henry’s famous short stories – sensitive, funny, sympathetic – give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

Yellow Bird Project制作、世界の童話シリーズ第265話。大人も子どもも楽しめる童話オーディオブックを、多彩なキャストとBGMでお届けします。『とある一組の貧しい夫婦が、お互いに贈ったクリスマスプレゼントは、とても愚かで、そして、もっとも賢い、まさに「賢者の贈り物」でした。』

Yellow Bird Project制作、世界の童話シリーズ第287話。大人も子どもも楽しめる童話オーディオブックを、多彩なキャストとBGMでお届けします。『「人は、芸術を愛した時、どんな苦労もいとわなくなる」二人の若い芸術家の夫婦に訪れた、小さな小さな物語です。』

やさしい英語で書かれた世界の名作小説を、BGMと効果音にのせてラジオドラマ仕立てでお届けします。O・ヘンリー（1862-1910）はアメリカを代表する短編小説家です。彼は、ドラッグストアの店員を皮切りに、羊番、銀行員、新聞記者などの職業を転々とし、刑務所暮らしまで経験しています。服役中に小説を書き始め、出所後はその豊かな人生経験をもとに、社会の底辺に生きる人々の暮らしぶりを笑いと愛情を持って描いています。ニューヨークのグリニッジ・ビレッジに共同アトリエを構えた画家の卵のスーとジョンジー。ほどなくしてジョンジーは、医者もさじを投げるほどの重病に冒されます。ベッドの上で身じろぎもしないジョンジーの傍らで絵を描き始めたスーは、ジョンジーがか細い声で数を、それも逆から数えているのを耳にし……。

When young Gillian inherits a sum of one thousand dollars from his late uncle, with the condition that he should spend it and return to the lawyers' office with a detailed account of his expenditure, he is at a loss what to do with the money. He seeks ideas and advice from many...but eventually the solution dawns on him.

The Last Leaf is a short story by O. Henry published in his 1907 collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. The story first appeared on October 15, 1905, in the New York World. The scene of the story of The Last Leaf is the Greenwich artist colony in New York City. Over the past century, it has developed from a poor literati settlement to a world-famous art center and tourist attraction.

O. Henry, the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), is best known for writing stories full of wit, wordplay, and warm characterizations, and particularly for their clever twist endings. This volume contains 20 of O. Henry's best and best-loved stories. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humor that have made O. Henry's stories popular for the last century.

A poor young couple demonstrates the meaning of love and self-sacrifice in the Christmas Classic, "The Gift of the Magi". Also included is "The Last Leaf". This tale follows a young woman artist who is stricken with pneumonia. She watches the leafy vine opposite her window with hollow eyes, and she determines to stay alive until the last leaf falls. O. Henry, always a master with the surprise ending, delivers two fine tales of his beloved New York City.

Christmas Stories by O. Henry is a delightful collection that showcases the heartwarming and often humorous tales of the iconic American writer, O. Henry. This anthology features a selection of enchanting stories, including Christmas by Injunction, Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking, A Chaparral Christmas Gift, An Unfinished Christmas Story, and The Gift of the Magi. O. Henry, renowned for his storytelling finesse, is a master of capturing the human spirit, and these Christmas stories are no exception.

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.

¿Alguna vez has mentido a una persona, porque la querías tanto, que no querías que se enterara de algo? Un Sacrificio por Amor La nuestra es una bella historia de amor, que se va a ver sometida a la presión de la cruda realidad:Della, es una pianista, que sueña con dar conciertosJoe, es un pintor, que sueña ser un gran maestro. Pero a veces la vida somete nuestras ilusiones a prosaicas realidades, lo cual no tiene por que desmoralizarnos, ya que el arte en si mismo es ya suficiente retribución, sobre todo cuando existe ese tipo de amor que todo lo compensa.

Based on O. Henry's endearing tale. Once three wise men came bearing gifts. Now a light dust of snow quiets the city streets. Christmas was upon a young couple whose sharing of lives together had just begun. A gift was needed and only a dollar and eighty-seven cents had been saved. Can the joy, the dreams, the hope for the future, the burning flame of love, be adequately expressed with only a dollar and eighty-seven cents?

Young readers enjoy this story a lot, because of the safecracking plot. Adults tend to like the growing up part: starting a shoe store, succeeding, getting the girl, and going straight.

Two friends decide to meet again after a 20-year separation - with very unexpected results.

やさしい英語で書かれた世界の名作小説を、BGMと効果音にのせてラジオドラマ仕立てでお届けします。O・ヘンリー（1862-1910）はアメリカを代表する短編小説家です。彼は、ドラッグストアの店員を皮切りに、羊番、銀行員、新聞記者などの職業を転々とし、刑務所暮らしまで経験しています。服役中に小説を書き始め、出所後はその豊かな人生経験をもとに、社会の底辺に生きる人々の暮らしぶりを笑いと愛情を持って描いています。短編集「四百万」に収められた物語の１つ。この物語が描かれた20世紀初頭のニューヨークの人口が400万人だったことから名付けられました。ボブとジミーの心温まる友情ドラマ。

This is a story from the Classic American Short Stories collection.