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Author: | H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner |
Category: | American Hegemony [Edit] |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
Release Date: | 01 Feb 2004 |
Pages: | 321 |
File Size: | 1.58 MB |
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Creation Date: | 19 Jul 2022 |
Rank: | 520,884 No 1 most popular |
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Contributor: Lampton, William James, 1859-1917
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Editor: Jessup, Alexander, 1871-
Title: The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Note: Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup
Contents: The little Frenchman and his water lots / G.P. Morris -- The angel of the odd / E.A. Poe -- The schoolmaster's progress / Caroline M.S. Kirkland -- The Watkinson evening / Eliza Leslie -- Titbottom's spectacles / G.W. Curtis -- My double; and how he undid me / E.E. Hale -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters / O.W. Holmes -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county / Mark Twain -- Elder Brown's backslide / H.S. Edwards -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker / R.M. Johnston -- The nice people / H.C. Bunner -- The Buller-Podington compact / F.R. Stockton -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / B. Harte -- The duplicity of Hargraves / O. Henry -- Bargain day at Tutt House / G.R. Chester -- A call / Grace M. Cooke -- How the widow won the deacon / W.J. Lampton -- Gideon / W. Hastings.
Language: English
LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject: Short stories, American
Release Date: Feb 1, 2004
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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