The Gift of the Magi and Other Tales of New York
By O. Henry
Length10h 53m
About this audiobook
In "The Gift of the Magi and Other Tales of New York," O. Henry masterfully weaves together a collection of poignant short stories that delve into the complexities of urban life in early 20th-century New York. Known for his wit and twist endings, O. Henry's writing showcases a keen understanding of human nature, love, sacrifice, and the unexpected turns of fate. Each tale serves as both a vivid snapshot and a social commentary on the struggles of the city's inhabitants, blending humor and pathos in a distinctly American literary style. The collection's title story, perhaps his most famous, epitomizes the themes of selflessness and irony that permeate his work, making it a poignant reflection on the true meaning of gift-giving amidst economic hardship. O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, drew inspiration from his varied experiences as a writer, bank teller, and even a prisoner. His own encounters with love and loss, coupled with the vibrant energy of New York City, profoundly influenced his storytelling. O. Henry's unique narrative style, enriched by his Southern roots and adroit use of local color, resonates throughout his stories, allowing readers to see both the mundane and the extraordinary in everyday life. I highly recommend "The Gift of the Magi and Other Tales of New York" to anyone seeking a profound and entertaining exploration of the human condition. O. Henry's deft storytelling and insightful observations invite readers to reflect on their own lives while enjoying the rich, textured world of New York. This collection is not merely a delightful read; it is an essential piece of American literature that continues to resonate.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (4.2K)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Retrieved Reformation
2The Cop And The Anthem
3The Duplicity Of Hargraves
4The Gift Of The Magi
5The Last Leaf
Show all chaptersShow less
6The Ransom Of Red Chief
7The Skylight Room
8The Trimmed Lamp
9The Whirligig Of Life
10A Harlem Tragedy
11The Making Of A New Yorker
12The Voice Of The City
13Chapter One: The Life And The Story
14Chapter Two: Vogue
15Chapter Three: Ancestry
16Chapter Four: Birthplace And Early Years
17Chapter Five: Ranch And City Life In Texas
18Chapter Six: The Shadowed Years
19Chapter Seven: Finding Himself In New York
20Chapter Eight: Favourite Themes
21Chapter Nine: Last Days
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Phebe A. Curtiss, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S. Morris, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Vernon Lee, Guy De Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, William Francis Dawson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Christopher North, Susan Coolidge, Oliver Bell Bunce, Phillips Brooks, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary Austin, James S. Park, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, C.s. Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Tudor Jenks, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Vaughan, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Selwin Tait, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Samuel Child, Samuel McChord Crothers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgianna M. Bishop, Sarah P. Doughty, John Punnett Peters, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Selma Lagerlof441h 54m$0.99 · $0.00
The Wit and Humor of America (Vol. 1-10)O. Henry, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Kendrick Bangs, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Ward Beecher, John G. Saxe, James Russell Lowell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert W. Chambers, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wallace Irwin, Eugene Field, Anne Virginia Culbertson, John Paul, Lloyd Osbourne, James Montgomery Flagg, Bill Nye, Robert J. Burdette, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Gelett Burgess, James Whitcomb Riley, Frank L. Stanton, Bayard Taylor, Artemus Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Charles Dudley Warner, Carolyn Wells, Owen Wister56h 15m3.0 (23)$0.99 · $0.00
American Short Stories – Best Books Boxed Set (Annotated)O. Henry, H. P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser62h 40m$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other New York City Stories (Annotated)O. Henry12h 13m4.1 (11.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories (Annotated)O. Henry12h 7m4.2 (30)$2 · $0.00
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four MillionO. Henry4h 55m4.0 (285)$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi and Other New York StoriesO. Henry11h 50m4.2 (2.3K)$1 · $0.00
Sixes and SevensO. Henry4h 55m4.1 (261)$2 · $0.00
Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving CollectionO. Henry, George Eliot, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell19h 26m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete WorksO. Henry106h 22m4.4 (3.2K)$2 · $0.00
Herz des WestensO. Henry8h 36m4.1 (23)$3 · $0.00
O. Henryana: Seven Odds and Ends, Poetry and Short StoriesO. Henry1h 14m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of O. HenryO. Henry116h 9m4.4 (3.5K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete O. Henry Short Stories (Rolling Stones + Cabbages and Kings + Options + Roads of Destiny + The Four Million + The Trimmed Lamp + The Voice of the City + Whirligigs and more) (Annotated)O. Henry103h 51m4.4 (2.6K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Thanksgiving TalesO. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Nora Perry, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell19h 42m4.3 (11)$0.99 · $0.00
Sechser und SiebenerO. Henry7h 2m4.1 (18)$2 · $0.00
The Gift of the Magi & Other Christmas Stories by O. Henry (Annotated)O. Henry2h 54m4.3 (2.3K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author)O. Henry7h 41m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete WorksO. Henry106h 26m4.5 (3.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m4.7 (2.8K)$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m4.8 (150)$0.99 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m4.8 (88)$2 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m4.6 (159.1K)$15
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$0.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
Richard Wagamese SelectedRichard Wagamese3h 14m4.6 (594)$15
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
Pathways to LightPrakash Amte7h 6m4.6 (1.3K)$8
These Vital SignsSayed Tabatabai3h 20m4.7 (215)$18 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m4.5 (10.6K)$2 · $0.00
Lessons in TruthH. Emilie3h 50m4.6 (1.4K)$4.70 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The Poetic EddaJackson Crawford6h 24m4.5 (19.8K)$17
Heart of IronC. M. Alongi15h 24m4.8 (665)$30
Ethic IIAshley Antoinette9h 1m4.7 (8K)$20
RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m4.7 (1.3K)$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m4.7 (3.4K)$20
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m4.7 (1.3K)$27
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m4.7 (669)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m4.8 (395)$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m4.7 (726)$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m4.7 (1.2K)$35
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m4.7 (3.8K)$20
BAEJahquel J.5h 22m4.7 (3.1K)$20
Dark RisingJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 47m4.7 (1.3K)$27
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m4.7 (2.4K)$20
Sons of Valor II: Violence of ActionBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson12h 34m4.6 (3.6K)$23
Malevolent MagicMildred Abbott7h 13m4.7 (1.2K)$17
Bikes, Toys, and Hot BoyzGenesis Woods, Shantaé13h 9m4.7 (722)$23
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00
Ghetto BastardK’wan7h 37m4.6 (2.9K)$20
You may also like
JumpLarry Miller, Laila Lacy7h 57m4.4 (900)$26 · $0.00
HookedAsako Yuzuki13h 36m3.7 (6.5K)$33 · $0.00
Fast GirlSuzy Favor Hamilton, Sarah Tomlinson8h 2m3.7 (9.6K)$26 · $0.00
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo64h 11m4.4 (941.2K)$1.80 · $0.00
Wyoming HeartDiana Palmer9h 59m4.1 (3K)$27 · $0.00
Golden GirlReem Faruqi2h 38m4.2 (1.7K)$18 · $0.00
Pull Me UnderKelly Luce9h 1m3.6 (3.1K)$20 · $0.00
The Borrowed Life of Frederick FifeAnna Johnston10h 49m4.2 (84.5K)$29 · $0.00
The Redemption Of Bobby LoveBobby Love, Cheryl Love9h 13m4.4 (956)$29 · $0.00
Resurrection (Annotated)Leo Tolstoy20h 59m4.2 (71.4K)$0.99 · $0.00
Beneath This MaskMeghan March7h 27m4.1 (35.2K)$20 · $0.00
Don't Look AwayDanielle Laidley9h 30m4.3 (460)$29 · $0.00
The Professor and The MadmanSimon Winchester7h 20m4.0 (178K)$24 · $0.00
Forgive MeSusan Lewis10h 54m4.1 (9.8K)$29 · $0.00
NotoriousDiana Palmer10h 14m4.4 (1.9K)$29 · $0.00
Families and Other EnemiesChristina Dodd2h 15m4.2 (857)$16 · $0.00
True Story tie-in editionMichael Finkel10h 15m4.0 (30K)$29 · $0.00
A New NameGrace Livingston Hill8h 30m4.2 (1.1K)$1.20 · $0.00
PuppetJoy Fielding12h 52m3.7 (4.1K)$30
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky20h 29m4.4 (1.2M)$32