One of the known humorists in world literature, О. of Henry created the unique panorama of American life on the border of XIX - XX of centuries, in grotesque situations passed contrasts and paradoxes of the epoch, opening space for people with a business grip, that the quirk of fate both uplifts on the top of success or overthrows on the bottom of life.There "is saying, that did not yet live a full life, whoever knew poverty, love and war. The justice of such judgement must entice every brief philosophy lover. All consists in these three terms, that needs to be known about life. A superficial thinker, maybe, would consider that to this list it is necessary to add riches yet and. But it not so. When a poor man finds the long long ago failing in a tear fourth of dollar after lining of waistcoat, he pelts a plumb line in such depths of vital gladness, to what to reach to not a single millionaire".