The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The author begins the book by stating his reasons for choosing those particular stories. He also talks about the way humorous fiction developed in the United States and the reason for not including a few famous writers. Most of the authors whose works are compiled here are less famous or long forgotten, which allows the readers to discover new stories, which today most probably are unusual.

This book is a collection of short stories, in which the humour is different, not raw and with too much exaggerated action, still entertaining.

In this book you will find eighteen short stories from the period 1839 to 1914. Among the stories you have the chance to read are:

• The Little Frenchman And His Water Lots
• The Angel Of The Odd
• The Schoolmaster's Progress
• The Watkinson Evening 
• Titbottom's Spectacles 
• The Duplicity Of Hargraves 
• Bargain Day At Tutt House 
• A Call 
• How The Widow Won The Deacon