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The Best American Humorous Short Stories
CONTENTS
Introduction | v | |
Alexander Jessup | ||
The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots | (1839) | 1 |
George Pope Morris | ||
The Angel of the Odd | (1844) | 7 |
Edgar Allan Poe | ||
The Schoolmaster’s Progress | (1844) | 18 |
Caroline M.S. Kirkland | ||
The Watkinson Evening | (1846) | 34 |
Eliza Leslie | ||
Titbottom’s Spectacles | (1854) | 52 |
George William Curtis | ||
My Double; and How He Undid Me | (1859) | 75 |
Edward Everett Hale | ||
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters | (1861) | 94 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | ||
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | (1865) | 102 |
Mark Twain | ||
Elder Brown’s Backslide | (1885) | 109 |
Harry Stillwell Edwards | ||
The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker | (1886) | 128 |
Richard Malcolm Johnston | ||
The Nice People | (1890) | 141 |
Henry Cuyler Bunner | ||
The Buller-Podington Compact | (1897) | 151 |
Frank Richard Stockton | ||
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff | (1901) | 170 |
Bret Harte | ||
The Duplicity of Hargraves | (1902) | 199 |
O. Henry | ||
Bargain Day at Tutt House | (1905) | 213 |
George Randolph Chester | ||
A Call | (1906) | 237 |
Grace MacGowan Cooke | ||
How the Widow Won the Deacon | (1911) | 252 |
William James Lampton | ||
Gideon | (1914) | 260 |
Wells Hastings |