【英语：基础进阶_原著扩展阅读】J6.原著阅读实战训练
1.THE LAST LEAF
by O.Henry
1.1.OVERVIEW
- Author
O.Henry - Year Published
1907 - Type
Short Story - Genre
- Fiction
1.2.AUTHORSHIP
In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called “places.” These “places” make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!
So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents. Then they imported some pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two