Last Leaf (Jamestown Classics)

by O'Henry

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
50	1	404,859	(4.32)	None
A pathetic story of friendship between two girl artists in old New York and an unsuccessful grey-haired painter. The painter's courage and caring enable him to make a successful sacrifice at the end.

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

ejmw, FamLit, AasthaGupta, Mrella, kishab, renardeu, SethBowman, bookclubisnotdead

numbers

show all

▾Tags

0.213395 (1) American (2) audiobook (1) auth-m (1) c:4F3EF7A8 (1) chapter book (1) classic (1) classics (1) content-disability-injury-illness (1) content-no-hea (1) favorite (1) favorites (1) fiction (3) gear-patrol (1) Grade level: 1.5 Interest level: Gr. 6-8 (9 copies) (1) LR (1) rare (1) Raymond Harris (1) read in 2011 (1) read-misc (1) red level (1) reread (1) short stories (5) short story (2) solo (1) stories (1) thriller (1) time-historical (1) to-read (6) younger-days (1)

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

▾Member reviews

Touching. (

)

Steve777 | Dec 27, 2008 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (2 possible)

▾Series and work relationships

Is contained in

100 Selected Stories by O. Henry

Has the adaptation

O. Henry's Full House [1952 film] by Henry Hathaway

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Awards and honors

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

A pathetic story of friendship between two girl artists in old New York and an unsuccessful grey-haired painter. The painter's courage and caring enable him to make a successful sacrifice at the end.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Sue and Johnsy are two girlfriends who live together in New York City. When Johnsy becomes sick one winter, she makes up her mind to die when the last leaf falls from the ivy plant growing outside her window. Sue would do anything to help her friend get well, but she is a poor artist. As the winter wind blows and the rain falls, there seems no way to stop the last leaf from falling.

Haiku summary

Add to Your books

Add to wishlist