CLASS 9
THE LAST LEAF
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Stephen King.
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O.Henry.
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Mark Twain.
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Edgar Allan Poe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The classic short story The Gift of the Magi is the most famous of O. Henry’s stories, but the stories that follow in this collection give the reader a deeper and richer sample of O.
Detailed explanation-2: -O. Henry was an American writer whose short stories are known for wit, wordplay and clever twist endings. He wrote nearly 600 stories about life in America.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1902 O. Henry arrived in New York-his “Bagdad on the Subway.” From December 1903 to January 1906 he produced a story a week for the New York Sunday World magazine and also wrote for other magazines. His first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), depicted fantastic characters against exotic Honduran backgrounds.
Detailed explanation-4: -A short story is a work of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting-usually between 20 minutes to an hour. There is no maximum length, but the average short story is 1, 000 to 7, 500 words, with some outliers reaching 10, 000 or 15, 000 words.