Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776597699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Everyone's favorite bloviating attorney makes a triumphant return to the law profession in the title story of this charming collection from Bret Harte. Colonel Starbottle takes on a client named Jo Corbin, who has committed a grievous crime and works out a convoluted plan of repentance.
Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776597699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Everyone's favorite bloviating attorney makes a triumphant return to the law profession in the title story of this charming collection from Bret Harte. Colonel Starbottle takes on a client named Jo Corbin, who has committed a grievous crime and works out a convoluted plan of repentance.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776597699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Everyone's favorite bloviating attorney makes a triumphant return to the law profession in the title story of this charming collection from Bret Harte. Colonel Starbottle takes on a client named Jo Corbin, who has committed a grievous crime and works out a convoluted plan of repentance.
Catalogue of the Magnificent Private Library of the Late Col. Jonas H. French, of Boston, Mass
Author: Jonas Hanod French
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Bulletin of the New Hampshire Public Libraries
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Catalogue of the J. Morgan Slade Library and Other Architectural Works in the Apprentices' Library
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Finding List of English Prose Fiction
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Development of the American Short Story
Author: Fred Lewis Pattee
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Author and Title List of Fiction and Children's Stories
Author: Nahant, Mass. Public library
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Author and Title List of Fiction and Children's Stories
Author: Nahant Public Library, Nahant, Mass
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books of the Library of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association
Author: Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, Portland. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 168195625X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A Different Kind of Humor The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren’t humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don’t wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women. This Collection Includes: INTRODUCTION Alexander Jessup 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) O. 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 This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 168195625X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A Different Kind of Humor The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren’t humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don’t wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women. This Collection Includes: INTRODUCTION Alexander Jessup 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) O. 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 This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes