The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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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 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