This carefully crafted ebook: "The Gift of the Magi and Other New York City Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
The Voice Of The City
The Making Of A New Yorker
A Retrieved Reformation
The Cop And The Anthem
The Duplicity Of Hargraves
The Gift Of The Magi
The Last Leaf
The Ransom Of Red Chief
The Skylight Room
The Trimmed Lamp
The Whirligig Of Life
A Harlem Tragedy
Biography of O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi is a story about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts.
The Cop and the Anthem is about a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so that he can be a guest of the city jail instead of sleeping out in the cold winter.
A Retrieved Reformation tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, recently freed from prison.
The Duplicity of Hargraves is a short story about a nearly destitute father and daughter's trip to Washington, D.C.
The Ransom of Red Chief is a short story, it follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabaman's son, eventually, the men are driven to distraction by the boy's spoiled and hyperactive behavior, and end up having to pay the boy's father to take him back.
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
Autorentext
Prince Ali Seraj of Afghanistan is the founder of the Prince Ali Seraj Institute for Peace and Reconstruction (www.pasi.one/). Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, he is a descendant of twelve generations of Afghan kings. Seraj attended the University of Connecticut and holds dual U.S./Afghan citizenship. He is a sought-after speaker on Afghanistan and serves as an independent consultant on policy matters to government officials and organizations.
ACCOLADES:
Honorary Knighthood, Grand Commander, from Knights Templars for charitable work performed in Afghanistan.
Recipient of the Medal of Commander in the Order of the Star of the Italian Solidarity from the president and foreign minister of Italy for rescuing an Italian photojournalist from the Taliban.
Zusammenfassung
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, The Life of Reason
His Royal Highness Prince Ali Seraj, a member of the royal family of Afghanistan, brings four decades of history to life—from the Cold War era when his famed nightclub in Kabul was a hotspot for global celebrities, jetsetters, and spies, to the communist Soviet takeover that killed members of his family, put a price on Prince Ali’s head, and forced him to make a harrowing escape from his homeland in disguise with his American wife and family.
Prince Seraj’s intimate and historic portrait of modern Afghanistan tells the inside story of a proud, ancient culture grappling with a turbulent history of invasion and transformation. His passionate and adventure-filled story opens a new door to understand a nation irrevocably linked to the stability and prosperity of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and to the United States.