num_pages: 608
description: Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Library of Humor
titlecomplete: Library of Humor
genres: Classics, Comedy, Short Stories, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 75
publisher: Modern Library