Author: Bret Harte
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Languages : en
Pages : 310
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A protégé of Jack Hamlin's, and other stories
Author: Bret Harte
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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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
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Clarence
Author: Bret Harte
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Category : Western stories
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Western stories
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Snow-bound at Eagle's
Author: Bret Harte
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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In a Hollow of the Hills
Author: Bret Harte
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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A History of American Literature Since 1870
Author: Fred Lewis Pattee
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Fred Lewis Pattee was a literary critic and the first-ever professor of American literature. In this work, published in 1915, he gives an account of the developments in American literature in the 70s, 80s, and the beginning of the 90s years of the 19th century.
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Fred Lewis Pattee was a literary critic and the first-ever professor of American literature. In this work, published in 1915, he gives an account of the developments in American literature in the 70s, 80s, and the beginning of the 90s years of the 19th century.
Biennial Report
Author: State Library of Iowa
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Report of the State Librarian to the ... General Assembly
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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