The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories

Ten of O. Henry's best-loved short stories, opening with the Christmas tale of Jim and Della, a young couple in a shabby New York flat who each sell their dearest treasure to buy the other a gift. Alongside it: the last leaf painted on a brick wall, a policeman's appointment twenty years late, a homeless man's search for a warm cell, a safecracker's chance at a new life, and other tales of love, luck, and surprise endings in the city of four million.