The Best American Humorous Short Stories
- ISBN-10
- 3985517649
- ISBN-13
- 9783985517640
- Series
- The Best American Humorous Short Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 436
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1945
- Author
- Alexander Jessup
Description
Swallowing an oyster alive / John S. Robb -- How daddy played hoss / George W. Harris -- The Shakers / Artemus Ward -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning / Mark Twain -- Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain -- Brother rabbit takes some exercise / Joel Chandler Harris -- How brother rabbit frightened his neighbors / Joel Chandler Harris -- How Mr. Rooster lost his dinner / Joel Chandler Harris -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte -- A piece of red calico / Frank R. Stockton -- Mr. Dooley on the game of football / Finley Peter Dunne -- Pigs is pigs / Ellis Parker Butler -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- Little gentleman / Booth Tarkington -- Three without doubled / Ring Lardner -- Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It / Ring Lardner -- Death of red peril / Walter D. Edmonds -- Travel is so broadening / Sinclair Lewis -- The crazy fool / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Mr. and Mrs. Haddock abroad / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- The legislature / James M. Cain -- The little hours / Dorothy Parker -- But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- The snatching of Bookie Bob / Damon Runyon -- An interesting cure / Frank Sullivan --Gendarmes and the man / Donald Moffat -- Carnival days in sunny Las Los / Robert Benchley -- The guest / Marc Connelly -- Primrose path / Sally Benson -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- The night the ghost got in / James Thurber -- University days / James Thurber -- The man who hated Moonbaum / James Thurber -- Father and his hard-rocking ship / Clarence Day -- The prince / Ruth McKenney -- Chocolate for the woodwork / Arthur Kober -- The terrible vengeance of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross -- Hand in nub / St. Clair McKelway --Down with the Restoration / S.J. Perelman -- Kitchen bouquet / S.J. Perelman -- Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman.
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