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"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
The Gift of the Magi is a chamber opera in four scenes with music by David Conte and libretto by Nicholas Giardini.Based on the 1905 short story of the same title by O. Henry, the opera focuses on Jim and Della, who are a poor married couple and cannot afford to buy each other presents for Christmas.
"The Gift of the Magi" is about a young couple, Jim and Della, who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable ...
It was these three gifts, it is thought, which were the chief cause for the number of the Magi becoming fixed eventually at three. [ 68 ] This episode can be linked to Isaiah 60 and to Psalm 72 , which report gifts being given by kings, and this has played a central role in the perception of the Magi as kings, rather than as astronomer-priests.
The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released on April 10, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co. in New York. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem".
The gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense, and myrrh) to Jesus " Mickey and Minnie's Gift of the Magi ", the third segment of the 1999 film Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Overture to "The Gift of the Magi", a composition by Tommy Banks from the 2002 album The Holiday Season
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"The Gift of the Magi" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series Fargo. It is the 15th overall episode of the series and was written by consulting producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi and directed by Jeffrey Reiner. It originally aired on FX on November 9, 2015.