A housewife,a tramp,a lawyer,a waitress,an actress -ordinary people living ordinary Lives in New York at the beginning of thiscentury.The city has changed greatly sincethat time,but its people are much the same.Some are rich,some are poor,some are happy,someare sad,some have found love,some are looking for love. O.Henry's famous short stories-sensitive,funny,sympathetic -give us vivid pictures of the everyday livesof these New Yorkers.(Word count 5,895)
Sally is always running and she hasher phone with her all the time:at home,on the train,at work,at lunchtime,andat the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has adifferent phone and it changes her life.
'I often walked along the shore,and one day I saw something in thesand.I went over to look at it morecarefully…It was a footprint-thefootprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a smallisland off the coast of South America.After fifteen yearsalone,he suddenly learns that there is another person onthe island.But will this man be a friend-or an enemy?
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered,disagreeable child.When her parents diein India,she is sent back to England to livewith her uncle in a big,lonely,old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens and watch the robin flying over the highwalls of the secret garden…which has been locked for tenyears.And no one has the key.
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Christmas is humbug,Scrooge says-just a time when you find yourself a yearolder and not a penny richer.The onlything that matters to Scrooge is business,and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him.They take him travelling on the wings of the night to seethe shadows of Christmas past,present,and future-and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
WinniePerryisturningtenandtenisBIG:itmeansdoubledigits,moreresponsibility,andbeinganalmost-middle-schooler.TenmeansthatWinniecanhandleanything,evenathree-year-oldbabybrotherandapracticallyteenage(andactinglikeit)oldersister.Andwithherbestfriend,Amanda,byherside,Winnieplansonenjoyingeverylastsecondoftheirlastyearinelementaryschool.ThisprequeltotheNewYorkTimesbestsellingWinnieYearsserieswillthrillthetweenswhogrewupwithWinnieandintroduceawholenewgenerationofreaderstoaheroinetheycangrowupwith.
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl.She first comes to England when she is seven,and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London.Then he goes back to his work in India.Sara is very sad at first,but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday,something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family,no home,and not a penny in the world...
Sometimes the Dashwood girls do notseem like sisters.Elinor is all calmnessand reason,and can be relied upon forpractical,common sense opinions.Marianne,on the other hand,is allsensibility,full of passionate and romantic feeling.Shehas no time for dull common sense-or for middle-agedmen of thirty-five,long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young,of course.And ifyour heart is broken at the age of seventeen,how can youever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fillsyour life,waking and sleeping?
