As part of our homeschooling, I used to have my son read a classic Christmas-related work every year. He was fine when we read A Christmas Carol together several years in a row, because I'm sorry but that never gets old. He liked the Sherlock Holmes story "The Blue Carbuncle." And he giggled at the ...
This is one of those beautiful stories that you can't ever read enough. Two people, so desperate to find a Christmas gift for each other that they sell their most prized possessions to do it. While on the surface it may seem to be a story about consumerism, it is about the love and devotion these ...
First line One dollar and eighty-seven cents.This is the shortest of shorts and entirely predictable. For mid-winter and the sentimentalist rather than late summer and the modern reader.1.5*
The truly classic "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry gets a retelling by Joel Priddy. The story of a young couple selling their prized possessions to purchase each other a gift is well known to most through a variety of adaptations. Priddy also keeps the colors simple, mainly black and white althoug...
I read this along side The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Both compelling stories and I thank my grade 9 teacher for making me read these two short stories.
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