The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Alexander Jessup
Eighteen stories written between 1839 and 1914, from Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain's Celebrated Jumping Frog to Bret Harte and O. Henry. A complete tour of American humor in short form.
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- The Ransom of Red Chief
Two small-time crooks kidnap a banker's son for ransom and soon learn the boy is worse than any punishment. A comic twist on the kidnapping story, and the deal ends in a direction nobody expects.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories
Thirteen stories from 1917 about hopeless suitors, chorus girls and young men in over their heads, including the very first appearance of Jeeves. Wodehouse's gift for comic misunderstanding is already in full form.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Beasts and Super-Beasts
Saki's 1914 collection, home to The Open Window and The Lumber-Room, where children, animals and pranksters outwit stuffy adults. Short, wicked and perfectly timed.
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Twain's 1893 collection led by the famous tale of a penniless American handed a million-pound note in London. Eleven late-career sketches on luck, manners, and the comedy of mistaken status.
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