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1 online resource |
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The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor: This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature, but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second - although a close second - to the short story standard. |
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| Contents |
The little Frenchman and his water lots / George Pope Morris -- The angel of the odd / Edgar Allan Poe -- The schoolmaster's progress / Caroline M.S. Kirkland -- The Watkinson evening / Eliza Leslie -- Titbottom's spectacles / George William Curtis -- My double; and How he undid me / Edward Everett Hale -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Elder Brown's backslide / Harry Stillwell Edwards -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker / Richard Malcolm Johnston -- The nice people / Henry Cuyler Bunner -- The Buller-Podington compact / Frank Richard Stockton -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte -- The duplicity of Hargraves / O. Henry -- Bargain day at Tutt House / George Randolph Chester -- A call / Grace MacGowan Cooke -- How the widow won the deacon / William James Lampton -- Gideon / Wells Hastings. |
| Subjects |
Short stories, American.
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American wit and humor.
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| Added Author |
Jessup, Alexander, 1871-
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| ISBN |
9781877527647 (electronic bk.) |
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1877527645 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Digital Editions) |
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9781877527647 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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1877527645 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket Reader) |
| OCLC # |
eMOe574365491 |
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