Humorous American Short Stories

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486316513
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humorous American Short Stories written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the basis of the 2013 motion picture, this anthology of 30 entertaining tales includes works by Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, and others.

Author : Alexander Jessup
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985517649
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by Alexander Jessup and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best American Humorous Short Stories Alexander Jessup - A Different Kind of Humor The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren't humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don't wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women. This Collection Includes: INTRODUCTION Alexander Jessup 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

Author : Alexander Jessup
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by Alexander Jessup and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1920 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Various
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613109520
Total Pages : pages
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Author : CREATESPACE
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442933070
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by CREATESPACE and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com

Author : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532769238
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature, but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second--although a close second--to the short story standard.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Author : Alexander Jessup
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512260489
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by Alexander Jessup and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must for every American Library small and large. The Best American Humorous Short Stories - boasting 18 of the best works from some of the most distinguished writers in American history including Twain, Poe, O Henry and Oliver Wendell. This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature, but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second-although a close second-to the short story standard. In view of the necessary limitations as to the volume's size, I could not hope to represent all periods of American literature adequately, nor was this necessary in order to give examples of the best that has been done in the short story in a humorous vein in American literature. Probably all types of the short story of humor are included here, at any rate. Not only copyright restrictions but in a measure my own opinion have combined to exclude anything by Joel Chandler Harris-Uncle Remus-from the collection. Harris is primarily-in his best work-a humorist, and only secondarily a short story writer. As a humorist he is of the first rank; as a writer of short stories his place is hardly so high. His humor is not mere funniness and diversion; he is a humorist in the fundamental and large sense, as are Cervantes, Rabelais, and Mark Twain.

Author : George Pope Morris
Publisher : Readhowyouwant
ISBN 13 : 9781442933101
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by George Pope Morris and published by Readhowyouwant. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.

Author : H. C. Bunner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781499181326
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by H. C. Bunner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature,[1] but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second—although a close second—to the short story standard.In view of the necessary limitations as to the volume's size, I could not hope to represent all periods of American literature adequately, nor was this necessary in order to give examples of the best that has been done in the short story in a humorous vein in American literature. Probably all types of the short story of humor are included here, at any rate. Not only copyright restrictions but in a measure my own opinion have combined to exclude anything by Joel Chandler Harris—Uncle Remus—from the collection. Harris is primarily—in his best work—a humorist, and only secondarily a short story writer. As a humorist he is of the first rank; as a writer of short stories his place is hardly so high. His humor is not mere funniness and diversion; he is a humorist in the fundamental and large sense, as are Cervantes, Rabelais, and Mark Twain.

Author : H. C. Bunner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986562928
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by H. C. Bunner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1886, he published a novel, The Midge, followed in 1887 by The Story of a New York House. But his best efforts in fiction were his short stories and sketches Short Sixes (1891), More Short Sixes (1894), Made in France (1893), Zadoc Pine and Other Stories (1891), Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories (1896), and Jersey Street and Jersey Lane (1896). His verses Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere (1884), containing the well-known poem, The Way to A ready; Rowen (1892); and Poems (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews, displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship. He also wrote clever vers de société and parodies. One of his several plays (usually written in collaboration), was The Tower of Babel (1883).