The Best American humorous short stories /
| Main Author: | Jessup, Alexander Ed. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Call Number: | PZ1.J499 Be |
| Institution: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Library: | Main Library |
| Record Id / ISBN-0: | ppap.53235 / 9781604246490 |
| Online Public Access Catalog: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Published: |
New York :
Boni and Liveright,
c1920.
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| Series: |
Modern library of the world's best books.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Alexander Jessup
- 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 Everett 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 Malcolm Johnston
- The nice people / by Henry Cuyler 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 MacGowan Cooke
- How the widow won the deacon / by William James Lampton
- Gideon / by Wells Hastings.