The ultimate story of love, generosity, temperance, and selflessness.In this short book, an impoverished couple sacrifice their most treasured things to buy each other a Christmas present. However what they lack in material things they have an abundance stored away in the hearts chamber. Touching, affecting, and sentimental. ‘Oh Henry’ this is a beautiful Christmas story or treat for any time but it is bit too short. More of a storyline could have been built around this theme and the underlying ...

|| 3.0 stars ||➛First read: August 2022 | ★3.0 stars➛Second read: November 2023 | ★3.0 starsThis is a story about love and poverty, and the message behind it is really quite sweet.Two people, very much in love, want to buy each other a Christmas present, but have no money to spare. To get their lover a gift anyway, they both sell their most prized possession. However, they eventually find out that neither can use the gift the other bought because they sold their own possessions. This could have ...

Broadly loved beautiful and heartfelt Christmas story about the meaning of giving gifts and reciprocity of love. The young newly-wed couple living in poverty in New York, Della and Jim, have no resources to give one another the Christmas present they would like to.“Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far. Expenses had been greater than she ...

This is a short and lovely story. The main theme here was love and the sacrifice you made for your loved ones. And this story will make us think again about all the false things we know about love and relationships. In the end, we all know the real meaning which is, to love is to sacrifice and you only sacrifice yourself only when you truly love someone.

Published in 1905, the gift of the Magi by O. Henry, tells of a young married couple, who, like most married couples starting out, have very little in the way of finances, so with Christmas almost upon them, they both have to come up with an idea to enable them to buy each other a gift. A sweet little story about love and sacrifice.

ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. That was all. She had put it aside, one cent and then another and then another, in her careful buying of meat and other food. Della counted it three times. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.Why do we give presents to each other, what is their significance? Perhaps they act as tokens to establish or affirm our relationships. Does it mean that our relationships are strong enough at the core that they require these physical emb...

All I want for Christmas… This is a well-known, poignant, and rather dated and sentimental short story demonstrating the generosity of love. Della and Jim are newly married, and quite poor. Each is privately determined to buy a special gift for the other. The sacrifices they make prove pointless (at least in the short run), profound, and maybe amusing.The title obviously refers to the Magi (aka Three Wise Men) who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh to baby Jesus. However, I assume their gifts...

I did not know this short story, thanks to Amalia, who brought me to this short book! In the spirit of Christmas, this is a heartwarming story about a young and poor couple who both, without knowing it from each other, sacrifice something personal and precious, to give each other a present at Christmas.
Lovely, a classic I see here now, happy I have read it, recommended!
Merry Christmas everyone!

2018 update: I read it again. And got misty-eyed again. Go read it. Here's a handy link: https://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_...In this classic 1905 Christmas story, one of O. Henry's best and most famous (free online at Amazon and many other websites), we meet Della and Jim, a young married couple who are as poor as church mice. All Della wants is to buy her beloved Jim a wonderful Christmas present ... but even after saving every penny for months, all she has is $1.87. A way to get enough mon...

O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," illustrated by Lizabeth Zwerger was among my gifts to my wife our first Christmas together. It is one of our annual traditions that I read it to her each Christmas. Yes, I'm hopelessly romantic. I imagine we'll finally hit a year when I hear a gentle snore when she nods off as I'm reading."ONE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and ...