Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English lookingto improve and practise their English. The book is filled with usefulvocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it alsocomes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress -ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning ofthe twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time,but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, someare happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking forlove.O. Henry´s famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.
