{"product_id":"2940013483576","title":"The Best American Humorous Short Stories (Illustrated)","description":"*Illustrated with pictures of every author.\u003cbr\u003e*Includes Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe names read like a who’s who in the pantheon of American writers: Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte. Given readers’ enthusiasm for Twain’s humor, Poe’s versatility, Harte’s Westerns, and Holmes’s literary genius, it’s no surprise that someone would put their works together. That person was Alexander Jessup, who compiled over a dozen of America’s best short stories and edited them together to create The Best American Humorous Short Stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with Jessup’s introduction, the compilation includes: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) George Pope Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) Eliza Leslie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) George William Curtis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) Edward Everett Hale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard Stockton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret Harte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. Henry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905)\u003cbr\u003e  George Randolph Chester\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA CALL (1906)\u003cbr\u003e  Grace MacGowan Cooke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911)\u003cbr\u003e  William James Lampton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGIDEON (1914)\u003cbr\u003e  Wells Hastings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of The Best American Humorous Short Stories is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with pictures of every author.","brand":"Charles River Editors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079506280688,"sku":"2940013483576","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013483576_p0.jpg?v=1763581925","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013483576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}