The Gift Of The Magi
An illustrated version of O. Henry's tale about a young husband and wife who give up their most treasured possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts, which ends in an ironic twist that makes their sacrifices poignant.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: christmas, gifts [X], love stories [X], man-woman relationship, short stories, american literature, short story-o.henry, short story, christmas stories, holidays, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts [X], bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories [X], love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books