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The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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

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

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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. 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.

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

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