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The Best American Humorous Short Stories

by · 1920

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

The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots (1839) George Pope Morris

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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

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humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
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1920s1920sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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