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The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million (Paperback)
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The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million (Paperback)
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Loot Price R192
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The Trimmed Lamp (1907) is a collection of twenty-five short
stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as
a fugitive and prisoner, these stories address themes of poverty
and city life with humor and abundant empathy. Its focus on the
regular, working class people of New York City makes The Trimmed
Lamp a sequel of sorts to Henry's The Four Million (1906), perhaps
his most important collection. In "The Trimmed Lamp," two friends
discuss work, love, and money while standing on a city
street-corner. They both came to New York in search of work, and
though Nancy enjoys her low paying job as a shop girl at a
department store, Lou brags about her employment as an ironer at a
laundry and encourages her friend to look for something else to do.
While they wait for Lou's boyfriend Dan, Lou asks Nancy about the
wealthy men who frequent her store, and secretly wonders what it
would be like to marry into money. "The Last Leaf" is a story of
two artists living in Greenwich Village. While Sue lies bedridden
from pneumonia, each day growing closer to death, she watches from
her window a vine across the street. As fall turns to winter, its
leaves drop one by one, until nothing remains but one last leaf. In
another apartment, an old artist named Behrman watches the vine as
well, painting the leaf with a renewed sense of purpose and a
lifetime of skill and precision. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of O. Henry's
The Trimmed Lamp is a classic of American literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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