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Although every literary tradition has its own rich vein of humor writing, there's something about American humor that sets it apart from the pack in terms of accessibility and lack of pretension. This volume includes writings from such luminaries of the genre as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Edgar Allen Poe, and the brevity of most of the collected pieces makes it easy to take a short reading break whenever you could use a good laugh.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots
- The Angel of the Odd
- The Schoolmaster's Progress
- The Watkinson Evening
- Titbottom's Spectacles
- My Double; And How He Undid Me
- A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- Elder Brown's Backslide
- The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker
- The Nice People
- The Buller-Podington Compact
- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
- The Duplicity of Hargraves
- Bargain Day at Tutt House
- A Call
- How the Widow Won the Deacon
- Gideon
- Endnotes