The Best American Humorous Short Stories (Illustrated) Mark Twain Author
by Mark Twain
2021-04-03 15:39:44
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (Illustrated) Mark Twain Author
by Mark Twain
2021-04-03 15:39:44
*Illustrated with pictures of every author.*Includes Table of ContentsThe names read like a who’s who in the pantheon of American writers: Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte. Given readers’ enthusiasm for Twa...
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*Illustrated with pictures of every author.*Includes Table of ContentsThe names read like a who’s who in the pantheon of American writers: Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte. Given readers’ enthusiasm for Twain’s humor, Poe’s versatility, Harte’s Westerns, and Holmes’s literary genius, it’s no surprise that someone would put their works together. That person was Alexander Jessup, who compiled over a dozen of America’s best short stories and edited them together to create The Best American Humorous Short Stories.Along with Jessup’s introduction, the compilation includes: THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) George Pope MorrisTHE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) Edgar Allan PoeTHE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) Caroline M.S. KirklandTHE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) Eliza LeslieTITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) George William CurtisMY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) Edward Everett HaleA VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) Oliver Wendell HolmesTHE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) Mark TwainELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) Harry Stillwell EdwardsTHE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) Richard Malcolm JohnstonTHE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler BunnerTHE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard StocktonCOLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret HarteTHE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. HenryBARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) George Randolph ChesterA CALL (1906) Grace MacGowan CookeHOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) William James LamptonGIDEON (1914) Wells HastingsThis edition of The Best American Humorous Short Stories is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with pictures of every author.
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