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Title:
The best American humorous short stories : 43 stories by authors
Author:
Linscott, Robert Newton.
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library, 1945.
Physical Description:
x, 436 s.
Series:
The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.
Series Title:
The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.
Contents:
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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