The Best American Humorous Stories

A massive collection of humorous stories from America's favorite writers:

The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots (1839) George Pope Morris
The Angel of the Odd (1844) Edgar Allan Poe
The Schoolmaster's Progress (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland
The Watkinson Evening (1846) Eliza Leslie
Titbottom's Spectacles (1854) George William Curtis
My Double; and How He Undid Me (1859) Edward Everett Hale
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) Mark Twain
Elder Brown's Backslide (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards
The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston
The Nice People (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Buller-Podington Compact (1897) Frank Richard Stockton
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff (1901) Bret Harte
The Duplicity of Hargraves (1902) O. Henry
Bargain Day at Tutt House (1905) George Randolph Chester
A Call (1906) Grace MacGowan Cooke
How the Widow Won the Deacon (1911) William James Lampton
Gideon (1914) by Wills Hastings

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Ad-ventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty. Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incis-ive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. Amer-ican author, William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."