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The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories

O. Henry

Book Overview: 

The Trimmed Lamp follows The Four Million and provides another series of short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. They also capture his use of coincidence or chance to create humor in the story. O Henry wrote about ordinary people in everyday circumstances. He is quoted as once saying, “There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts and newspaper stands.”

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Bless the day. President Roosevelt gives it to us. We hear some talk of the Puritans, but don't just remember who they were. Bet we can lick 'em, anyhow, if they try to land again. Plymouth Rocks? Well, that sounds more familiar. Lots of us have had to come down to hens since the Turkey Trust got its work in. But somebody in Washington is leaking out advance information to 'em about these Thanksgiving proclamations.

The big city east of the cranberry bogs has made Thanksgiving Day an institution. The last Thursday in November is the only day in the year on which it recognizes the part of America lying across the ferries. It is the one day that is purely American. Yes, a day of celebration, exclusively American.

And now for the story which is to prove to you that we have. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Хорошая история о двух штатчанках, приехавших в Нью-Йорк осуществлять американскую мечту в виде подцепления безхозного миллионера и разных стратегий осуществления этого нелёгкого дела. Действительно остроумно, что-то немного от "Джентльмены предпочитают блондинок" (т.е. В джазе только девушки советс

Clever, prosaic, but dated.

The Trimmed Lamp is a collection of 25 short stories by O. Henry, set in New York city. There are some extremely well written and entertaining stories like The Pendulum, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, According to their Lights and The Last Leaf. This collection also contains some thought provoking

This, the second volume in O. Henry’s 10-volume set of short story collections, continues with the theme set in its predecessor, The Four Million. I first encountered these stories way back in the 1950s, finding them amusing but quite dated. Re-visiting them now, I’m stuck by the universality and ti

I read this after reading a New Yorker review.
The problem with O. Henry is you have an author who could write and tell a story, but who (for financial reasons) churned out stories with the same plot device.
Still, these are entertaining sketches of life in the big city for the lowerer and middle c

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