Collections of Humorous Stories

• The Best American Humorous Short Stories - |jessup-best|
  • 1920s
    from the internet archives - UofCA
    • The little Frenchman and his water lots - George Pope morris
    • The angel of the odd - Edgar Allen Poe
    • The schoolmaster's progress - Caroline M.S. Kirkland
    • The Watkinson evening - Eliza Leslie
    • Titbottom's spectacles - George William Curtis
    • My double; and How he undid me - Edwars Everett Hale
    • A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters - Oliver Wendle Holmes
    • The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain
    • Elder Brown's backslide - Harry Stillwell Edwards
    • The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -
    • The nice people
    • The Buller-Podington compact
    • Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff
    • The duplicity of Hargraves
    • Bargain day at Tutt House
    • A call
    • How the widow won the deacon
    • Gideon