Mark Twain's Library of HumorCharles L. Webster & Company, 1888 - 707 Seiten "Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados. |
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... thing about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley , I would feel under many obligations to him . Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair , and then sat down and reeled off the monot- onous narrative which ...
... thing had gone along far enough , and the money was all up , and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt , he see ... things , till you couldn't rest , and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you . He ketched a ...
... thing , I should judge - he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County . ' " The feller took the box again , and took another long , particu- lar look , and give it back to Smiley , and says , very deliberate , ' Well , ' he says , ' I ...
... things to break up and melt over . The Government didn't want them ; private citizen didn't want them ; they were a ... thing became which just now was worth nothing at all . " Ha , ha ! " thought Silas ; " somebody else is tryin ' tu ...
... thing secret , were obliged to make a club matter of it , inasmuch as funds were required for ammunition . There had been no recent drain on the treasury , and the society could well afford to spend a few dollars in so notable an ...
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