The Burning Lamp" (1907) is one of the best author's collections of the famous American writer O. Henry (1862-1910), in which the images of ordinary New Yorkers - clerks, salesmen, unemployed people, housewives, etc. - are depicted with great skill and warmth. tramps... The huge city is trying to crush them under itself, subject them to strict laws, kill their sincere love and inspire them that only money plays a role in life. And the heroes of the collection, each in their own way, try to resist this and remain themselves. The story was first published in 1905