The best American humorous short stories
By: edited by Alexander Jessup
Series: Modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: American Short stories
Table of contents: title: The little Frenchman and his water lots, by G.P. Morris.; title: The angel of the odd, by E.A. Poe.; title: The schoolmaster's progress, by Caroline M.S. Kirkland.; title: The Watkinson evening, by Eliza Leslie.; title: Titbottom's spectacles, by G.W. Curtis.; title: My double ; and how he undid me, by E.E. Hale.; title: A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters, by O.W. Holmes.; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county, by Mark Twain.; title: Elder Brown's backslide, by H.S. Edwards.; title: The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker, by R.M. Johnston.; title: The nice people, by H.C. Bunner.; title: The Buller-Podington compact, by F.R. Stockton.; title: Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff, by B. Harte.; title: The duplicity of Hargraves, by O. Henry.; title: Bargain day at Tutt House, by G.R. Chester.; title: A call, by Grace M. Cooke.; title: How the widow won the deacon, by W.J. Lampton.; title: Gideon, by W. Hastings.