The Best American Humorous Short Stories

by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Frank R. Stockton, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Edward Everett Hale, George Randolph Chester, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Grace MacGowan Cooke, George William Curtis, Eliza Leslie, Caroline Kirkland, Alexander Jessup, Harry Stillwell Edwards, George Pope Morris, Wells Hastings, William James Lampton, H.C. Bunner

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The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor: 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...

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