The Best American Humorous Short Stories (Illustrated)

• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.
• Contents: THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) George Pope Morris; THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) Edgar Allan Poe; HE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland; THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) Eliza Leslie; TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) George William Curtis; MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) Edward Everett Hale; A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes; THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) Mark Twain; ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards; THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston; THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner; THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard Stockton; COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret Harte; THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. Henry; BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) George Randolph Chester; A CALL (1906) Grace MacGowan Cooke; HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) William James Lampton; GIDEON (1914) Wells Hastings