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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 MorrisThe Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan PoeThe Schoolmaster’s Progress by Caroline M.S. KirklandThe Watkinson Evening by Eliza LeslieTitbottom’s Spectacles by George William CurtisMy Double; and How He Undid Me by Edward E. HaleA Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters by Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainElder Brown’s Backslide by Harry Stillwell EdwardsThe Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard M. JohnstonThe Nice People by Henry C. BunnerThe Buller-Podington Compact by Frank Richard StocktonColonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff by Bret HarteThe Duplicity of Hargraves by O. HenryBargain Day at Tutt House by George Randolph ChesterA Call by Grace M. CookeHow the Widow Won the Deacon by William James LamptonGideon by Wells Hastings.
