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• American humorous stories

• The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo: With Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes (New York and London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938), by John Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, 2009), by Mark Twain, ed. by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at marktwainproject.org)
• The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Harper edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, ca. 1917), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (New York: C. H. Webb, 1869), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cornfield Philosophy (Chicago: Blakely Printing Co., 1902), by C. D. Strode, illust. by Percy E. Anderson (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Editorial Wild Oats, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon; and Other Humorous Tales (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by Richard Edward Connell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches New and Old, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches New and Old (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., ca. 1917), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merry Tales (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892), by Mark Twain, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mr. Dooley's Opinions (New York: Harper and Bros., 1906), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations by Mr. Dooley (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), by Finley Peter Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1913), by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Finley Peter Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen, by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Dooley Says, by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg text)
• Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Phoenixiana: or, Sketches and Burlesques, by George Horatio Derby (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1850), by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858), by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool", by George Washington Harris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• American Fiction (Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction v10; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Argosy (American fiction magazine, founded 1882) (partial serial archives)
• Young's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Saturday Evening Post (partial serial archives)

• Southern Lights and Shadows (1907), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, contrib. by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Abby Meguire Roach, Alice MacGowan, Mrs. B. F. Mayhew, William Ludwell Sheppard, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, M. E. M. Davis, J Eakins, and Maurice Thompson (Gutenberg text)
• Southern Lights and Shadows (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1907), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, contrib. by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Abby Meguire Roach, Alice MacGowan, Mrs. B. F. Mayhew, William Ludwell Sheppard, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, M. E. M. Davis, J Eakins, and Maurice Thompson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
  • page images at Drexel
  • frame-dependent page images at Harvard

• Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York: Pub. for the Review of Reviews Co. by Macmillan; London: Macmillan, 1913), by Jack London, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.