Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, by Various-THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839)_George Pope Morris_THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844)_Edgar Allan Poe_THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844)_Caroline M.S. Kirkland_THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846)_Eliza Leslie_TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854)_George William Curtis_MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859)_Edward Everett Hale_A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861)_Oliver Wendell Holmes_THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865)_Mark Twain_ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885)_Harry Stillwell Edwards_THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886)_Richard Malcolm Johnston_THE NICE PEOPLE (1890)_Henry Cuyler Bunner_THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897)_Frank Richard Stockton_COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901)_Bret Harte_THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902)_OR. Henry_BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) _George Randolph Chester_A CALL (1906) _Grace MacGowan Cooke_HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) _William James Lampton_GIDEON (1914) _Wells Hastings_
