Best American Humorous Short Stories

Eighteen of the very best classic American humorous short stories, including: The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots, by George Pope Morris ● The Angel of the Odd, by Edgar Allan Poe ● The Schoolmasters’s Progress, by Caroline M.S. Kirkland ● The Watkinson Evening, by Eliza Leslie ● Titbottom’s Spectacles, by George William Curtis ● My Double and How He Undid Me, by Edward Everett Hale ● A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters, by Oliver Wendell Holmes ● The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain ● Elder Brown’s Backslide, by Harry Stillwell Edwards ● The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker, by Richard Malcolm Johnston ● The Nice People, by Henry Cuyler Bunner ● The Buller-Podington Compact, by Frank Richard Stockton ● Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, by Bret Harte ● The Duplicity of Hargraves, by O. Henry ● Bargain Day at Tutt House, by George Randolph Chester ● A Call, by Grace MacGowan Cooke ● How the Widow Won the Deacon, by William James Lampton ● and Gideon, by Wells Hastings.