The best American humorous short stories.
By: Edited with an introductory note by Robert N. Linscott.
Series: Modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1949
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Humorous stories, American.; Short stories, American.; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, 1945.

Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Swallowing an oyster alive / John S. Robb; value: How daddy played hoss / George W. Harris; value: The Shakers / Artemus Ward; value: Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning / Mark Twain; value: Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain; value: Brother rabbit takes some exercise / Joel Chandler Harris; value: How brother rabbit frightened his neighbors / Joel Chandler Harris; value: How Mr. Rooster lost his dinner / Joel Chandler Harris; value: Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte; value: A piece of red calico / Frank R. Stockton; value: Mr. Dooley on the game of football / Finley Peter Dunne; value: Pigs is pigs / Ellis Parker Butler; value: The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry; value: Little gentleman / Booth Tarkington; value: Three without doubled / Ring Lardner; value: Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It / Ring Lardner; value: Death of red peril / Walter D. Edmonds; value: Travel is so broadening / Sinclair Lewis; value: The crazy fool / Donald Ogden Stewart; value: Mr. and Mrs. Haddock abroad / Donald Ogden Stewart; value: Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; value: The legislature / James M. Cain; value: The little hours / Dorothy Parker; value: But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker; value: The snatching of Bookie Bob / Damon Runyon; value: An interesting cure / Frank Sullivan; value: Gendarmes and the man / Donald Moffat; value: Carnival days in sunny Las Los / Robert Benchley; value: The guest / Marc Connelly; value: Primrose path / Sally Benson; value: The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber; value: The night the bed fell / James Thurber; value: The night the ghost got in / James Thurber; value: University days / James Thurber; value: The man who hated Moonbaum / James Thurber; value: Father and his hard-rocking ship / Clarence Day; value: The prince / Ruth McKenney; value: Chocolate for the woodwork / Arthur Kober; value: The terrible vengeance of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross; value: Hand in nub / St. Clair McKelway; value: Down with the Restoration / S.J. Perelman; value: Kitchen bouquet / S.J. Perelman; value: Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman.