Everybody sometimes has free time. Somebody prefers only to sleep at his leisure time, but most of us prefer to do a great number of interesting things.
I don't have much free time on school days. I have additional Math lessons twice a week, and I go in for volleyball three times a week after school.
Books play an important role in our life. "Books and friends should be few but good," says an English proverb.
Books are our friends in a real sense. They demand nothing from us. They give us plenty of joy. We also learn a lot from them. They take us into a different world of imagination.
Books are not only entertainment. They help us in self-education, and also to imagine the future, to look into the past. Books devel
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1.William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
He wrote nearly 600 stories about life in America.
2.Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc.
