![]() The same is true of short stories from other lands we could name. ![]() In Russia, the short stories by writers like Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Zoshenko mark vital stages in literary development and still intrigue young readers. We Americans are not great lovers of the genre of short story. Yet, his international fame rests on one brief story, dashed off reportedly in two hours for an editor right before O’Henry was due to be fired! His own life was tumultuous, marked by troubles, struggles, and mixed success as an author. Henry (1862-1910) would say about our ongoing embrace of his thought-provoking story The Gift of the Magi, first published in 1905. It’s hard to know what American writer O. ![]() What if you wrote 600 short stories, but posterity remembers you for just one? Would you be pleased? ![]()
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