{"product_id":"9781387079780","title":"The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their surprise endings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. \u003c\/p\u003eA collection of Short Storys by William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRIMMED LAMPA MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHTTHE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALLTHE PENDULUMTWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMENTHE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESSTHE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITYTHE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROONBRICKDUST ROWTHE MAKING OF A NEW YORKERVANITY AND SOME SABLESTHE SOCIAL TRIANGLETHE PURPLE DRESSTHE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99THE LOST BLENDA HARLEM TRAGEDY\"THE GUILTY PARTY\"ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTSA MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAMTHE LAST LEAFTHE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUESTTHE COUNTRY OF ELUSIONTHE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENTTHE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER ELSIE IN NEW YORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE\u003cbr\u003eTRIMMED LAMP (excerpt)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course there are two sides to the question. Let\u003cbr\u003e us look at the other. We often hear \"shop-girls\" spoken of.\u003cbr\u003e No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make\u003cbr\u003e their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an\u003cbr\u003e adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on\u003cbr\u003e Fifth Avenue as \"marriage-girls.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eLou and Nancy were chums. They came to the big\u003cbr\u003e city to find work because there was not enough to eat at their homes\u003cbr\u003e to go around. Nancy was nineteen; Lou was twenty. Both were pretty,\u003cbr\u003e active, country girls who had no ambition to go on the stage. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe little cherub that sits up aloft guided them\u003cbr\u003e to a cheap and respectable boarding-house. Both found positions and\u003cbr\u003e became wage-earners. They remained chums. It is at the end of six\u003cbr\u003e months that I would beg you to step forward and be introduced to\u003cbr\u003e them. Meddlesome Reader: My Lady friends, Miss Nancy and Miss Lou.\u003cbr\u003e While you are shaking hands please take notice—cautiously—of\u003cbr\u003e their attire. Yes, cautiously; for they are as quick to resent a\u003cbr\u003e stare as a lady in a box at the horse show is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eLou is a piece-work ironer in a hand laundry. She\u003cbr\u003e is clothed in a badly-fitting purple dress, and her hat plume is four\u003cbr\u003e inches too long; but her ermine muff and scarf cost $25, and its\u003cbr\u003e fellow beasts will be ticketed in the windows at $7.98 before the\u003cbr\u003e season is over. Her cheeks are pink, and her light blue eyes bright.\u003cbr\u003e Contentment radiates from her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eNancy you would call a shop-girl—because you\u003cbr\u003e have the habit. There is no type; but a perverse generation is always\u003cbr\u003e seeking a type; so this is what the type should be. She has the\u003cbr\u003e high-ratted pompadour, and the exaggerated straight-front. Her skirt\u003cbr\u003e is shoddy, but has the correct flare. No furs protect her against the\u003cbr\u003e bitter spring air, but she wears her short broadcloth jacket as\u003cbr\u003e jauntily as though it were Persian lamb! On her face and in her eyes,\u003cbr\u003e remorseless type-seeker, is the typical shop-girl expression. It is a\u003cbr\u003e look of silent but contemptuous revolt against cheated womanhood; of\u003cbr\u003e sad prophecy of the vengeance to come...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublishDrive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125527986416,"sku":"9781387079780","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781387079780_p0.jpg?v=1763711589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781387079780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}