Best American Humorous Short Stories

The Best American Humorous Short Stories, a 1920 treasury of favorite American writers at their funniest. Characters who range from the conniving to the eccentric, the hopelessly out-of-touch, or the just plain silly make for plenty of laughs as they cope with situations both ordinary and extraordinary. Whether it’s the oblivious gambling man in Mark Twain’s “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the skeptic whose eyes are dramatically opened in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Angel of the Odd,” or any of the heroes and heroines of these eighteen tales of hi-jinks and hilarity, you’ll be sure to get a strong dose of the very best medicine with this collection.


Contents

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

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), Wells Hastings