Mark Twain's Library of Humor

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Random House Publishing Group, 27 окт. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 608
Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.
 

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Warm Hair Mark Twain
10
The Villager and the Snake George Thomas Lanigan
16
The Legend of Mimir Robert Jones Burdette
27
Carries Comedy William Livingstone Alden
44
FirstClass Snake Stories
55
Abelard and Heloise Mark Twain
62
A Genuine Mexican Plug Mark Twain
74
The Simple Story of G Washington Robert J Burdette
82
The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages
307
A Fatal Thirst Bill Nye
314
The Mackrel Josh Billings
325
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
333
Minnesota Wheat
339
An Italians View of a New England Winter
347
Custom House Morals W D Howells
350
Oon Criteek de Bernhardt Eugene Field
362

Tis Only My Husband Joseph C Neal
89
A Days Work Mark Twain
99
Trying to Understand a Woman W D Howells
105
Woman Josh Billings
112
Dick Bakers Cat Mark Twain
118
A Restless Night Mark Twain
124
The Ostrich and the Hen Geo T Lanigan
144
Illustrated Newspapers John Phoenix
155
Jack Downing in Portland Seba Smith
163
The Dog and the Bees Ambrose Bierce
171
The Expensive Treat of Col Moses
178
One of Mr Wards Business Letters Artemus Ward
193
The Vacation of Mustapha R J Burdette
201
Darius Green and His Flying Machine
211
Plumbers Charles Dudley Warner
218
The Hodjas Donkey on His Veracity S S Cox
244
The Belle of Vallejo W L Alden
254
Fourth of July Oration Artemus Ward
264
Wrecked in Port R J Burdette
275
The Ant and the Grain of Corn Ambrose Bierce
287
A Jersey Centenarian Bret Harte
293
A Victim of Hospitality Rev F W Shelton
301
Little Charles and the Fruit
378
She Had to Take Her Things Along Robert J Burdette
385
Boy the Destroyer Charles Dudley Warner
394
A New System of English GrammarJohn Phoenix
400
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405
In Siss Interest
406
Uncle Joshua Downing in Boston Seba Smith
418
Economical Indeed
426
The Centipede and the Barbaric Yak G T Lanigan
432
The Camel and the Zebra Ambrose Bierce
450
A Great Fit Orpheus C Kerr
457
Artemus Ward and the Prince of Wales Artemus Ward
459
Their First Quarrel W D Howells
466
Found Josh Billings
482
Interview with President Lincoln Artemus Ward
497
The Grasshopper and the Ant G T Lanigan
509
The Shopper R J Burdette
515
Pie Charles Dudley Warner
527
SewingMachineFeline Attachment John Phoenix
538
Ants Etc Josh Billings
544
Edited an Agricultural Paper Mark Twain
555
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Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel Clemens in Missouri. As a boy, he worked as a printer and a Mississippi River pilot. A leading literary influence in his own time and ever since, he is the author of many classics, including Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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