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Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress

Year

2006

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

32m

Author

O. Henry

Publication Information

Blackstone Publishing

Summary

In “Elsie in New York,” Elsie is an innocent young woman who must look for work to make a living. Although she applies for several positions, do-gooders interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in actuality they point her to her destruction. In “The Purple Dress,” two young women clerks have been saving money all year to buy new dresses for the one gala of their year, the annual Thanksgiving dinner given by their employer. But when a landlady and a dressmaker intervene, things turn out much differently than either girl could have imagined.

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