The Wit and Humor of America (Vol 1-10) - Comedy Anthology: Funny Stories Poems Humorous Articles Fables & Fairy Tales
O. Henry, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Kendrick Bangs, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Ward Beecher, John G. Saxe, James Russell Lowell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert W. Chambers, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wallace Irwin, Eugene Field, Anne Virginia Culbertson, John Paul, Lloyd Osbourne, James Montgomery Flagg, Bill Nye, Robert J. Burdette, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Gelett Burgess, James Whitcomb Riley, Frank L. Stanton, Bayard Taylor, Artemus Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Charles Dudley Warner, Carolyn Wells, Owen Wister
Publisher: e-artnow
Summary
Explore the rich tapestry of American humor with "The Wit and Humor of America" — a meticulously curated anthology spanning ten volumes. Edited by the renowned American humorist Marshall P. Wilder, this collection features the wit of literary giants such as Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, and more. Delve into a diverse array of humorous gems, including funny stories, poems, humorous articles, fables, and fairy tales. Table of Contents: Volume 1: Anatole Dubois at de Horse Show The Billville Spirit Meeting The British Matron The Champion Checker-Player of Ameriky Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt A Cry from the Consumer The Curse of the Competent Darby and Joan The Day We Do Not Celebrate The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay" The Deacon's Trout A Disappointment Distichs Down Around the River Enough The Experiences of the A. C. The Feast of the Monkeys The Fighting Race The Grammatical Boy Grizzly-Gru John Henry in a Street Car Laffing A Letter from Mr. Biggs A Medieval Discoverer Melons The Menagerie Mrs. Johnson The Muskeeter My Grandmother's Turkey-Tail Fan Myopia An Odyssey of K's The Old Maid's House: In Plan The Organ Partingtonian Patchwork Pass The Pettibone Lineage A Psalm of Life The Purple Cow The Quarrel Similar Cases Simple English Spelling Down the Master Stage Whispers Teaching by Example The Tragedy of It The Turnings of a Bookworm Wanted-A Cook What Mr. Robinson Thinks When Albani Sang When the Frost is on the Punkin Why Moles Have Hands Wouter Van Twiller The Yankee Dude'll Do Volume 2: An Archæological Congress Aunt Dinah's Kitchen Ballad Barney McGee The Beecher Beached A Boy's View of It Budd Wilkins at the Show The Colonel's Clothes Comin' Thu The Dutchman Who Had the "Small Pox" An Evening Musicale Familiar Authors at Work Fascination The Golfer's Rubaiyat Go Lightly, Gal (The Cake Walk) Grandma Keeler Gets Grandpa Ready for Sunday-School The Hoosier and the Salt Pile How Ruby Played A Letter The Lost Word Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum Mr. Dooley on Gold-Seeking…
Available since: 04/27/2024.
Print length: 1742 pages.
