{"product_id":"9781681956251","title":"The Best American Humorous Short Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Different Kind of Humor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren’t humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don’t wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women.\u003c\/p\u003eThis Collection Includes: \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION Alexander Jessup \u003cbr\u003e THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) George Pope Morris \u003cbr\u003e THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) Edgar Allan Poe \u003cbr\u003e THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland \u003cbr\u003e THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) Eliza Leslie \u003cbr\u003e TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) George William Curtis \u003cbr\u003eMY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) Edward Everett Hale \u003cbr\u003e A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes \u003cbr\u003e THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) Mark Twain \u003cbr\u003e ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards \u003cbr\u003e THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston \u003cbr\u003e THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner \u003cbr\u003e THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard Stockton \u003cbr\u003eCOLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret Harte \u003cbr\u003e THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. Henry \u003cbr\u003e BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) George Randolph Chester \u003cbr\u003e A CALL (1906) Grace MacGowan Cooke \u003cbr\u003e HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) William James Lampton \u003cbr\u003eGIDEON (1914) Wells Hastings","brand":"Xist Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135122850032,"sku":"9781681956251","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681956251_p0.jpg?v=1763695506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681956251","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}