Step into a world of laughter and wit with The Best American Humorous Short Stories edited by Alexander Jessup. Delight in a collection of timeless tales from renowned authors, each crafted to tickle your funny bone and leave you smiling long after the last page turns.
Included herein:
The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots by George Pope Morris
The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe
The Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline M.S. Kirkland
The Watkinson Evening by Eliza Leslie
Titbottom's Spectacles by George William Curtis
My Double; and How He Undid Me by Edward E. Hale
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Elder Brown's Backslide by Harry Stillwell Edwards
The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard M. Johnston
The Nice People by Henry C. Bunner
The Buller-Podington Compact by Frank Richard Stockton
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff by Bret Harte
The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry
Bargain Day at Tutt House by George Randolph Chester
A Call by Grace M. Cooke
How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton
Gideon by Wells Hastings.