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The Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi
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Laura
Oct 28, 2011 rated it it was ok
Shelves: short-stories, e-books, american-fiction, christmas-books, fiction-20th-century, fiction, read-2011
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. ...more
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superawesomekt
Mar 12, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: christmas-literature, picture-books, juvenile-literature, short-stories
gorgeous illustrations. this is my favorite edition.
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