The Best American Humorous Short Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781392463 ISBN 13: 9781781392461

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Classic short stories including the following: THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS by George Pope Morris THE ANGEL OF THE ODD by Edgar Allan Poe THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS by Caroline M.S. Kirkland THE WATKINSON EVENING by Eliza Leslie TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES by George William Curtis MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME by Edward Everett Hale A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS by Oliver Wendell Holmes THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY by Mark Twain ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE by Harry Stillwell Edwards THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER by Richard Malcolm Johnston THE NICE PEOPLE by Henry Cuyler Bunner THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT by Frank Richard Stockton COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF by Bret Harte THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES by O. Henry BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE by George Randolph Chester A CALL by Grace MacGowan Cooke HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON by William James Lampton; GIDEON by Wells Hastings

About this title

About the Author:

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781392463
• ISBN 13: 9781781392461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Jessup Alexander