The best American humorous short stories
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329 pages•about 6 h 45 min to read•Public domain
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About this book
American comic fiction is the ground of this anthology, which gathers short stories shaped by social mischief and tall-tale narration. In Mark Twain’s frog story, Simon Wheeler keeps a visiting stranger listening to one absurd account after another about Jim Smiley’s betting animals. A schoolroom prank takes a more tender-looking form when Miss Bangle’s planted letters draw a smitten teacher into increasingly sentimental replies. Much of the humor comes from people taking their own schemes or speeches more seriously than the situation warrants.
