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The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry • 1905
A tender story of sacrifice, love, and two gifts whose apparent uselessness reveals their real value.
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15 min
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About this ebook
Read O. Henry's complete Christmas story and listen to it as one compact audiobook chapter.
The Gift of the Magi is presented here with 1 complete audio section, preserving the structure of the original work rather than combining the book into one track.
Readers can move between the ebook source and the AI-narrated audio, making this public-domain edition easy to read, sample, and continue by chapter.
Why readers love it
- It is a recognized public-domain work with lasting literary and cultural value.
- Its compact single-story form works naturally for focused listening.
- The read-and-listen format makes it easy to revisit scenes, ideas, and language at your own pace.
What the opening chapters do
The Gift of the Magi opens in the distinctive voice and setting that made O. Henry's work endure.
The complete narration follows the cleaned Project Gutenberg text, without its catalog header, table of contents, or license footer.
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Is The Gift of the Magi available as a complete audiobook here?
Yes. This page includes the complete cleaned narration in 1 audio section.
Where does the ebook text come from?
The source is the linked Project Gutenberg edition. Its catalog header, contents page, and license footer are excluded from the narration.
Can I listen chapter by chapter?
This work is a single continuous short piece, so it is correctly presented as one complete audio section.
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