The Best American Humorous Short Stories
โ Scribed by Alexander Jessup
- Book ID
- 110673789
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781620114858
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Although every literary tradition has its own rich vein of humor writing, there's something about American humor that sets it apart from the pack in terms of accessibility and lack of pretension. This volume includes writings from such luminaries of the genre as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Edgar Allen Poe, and the brevity of most of the collected pieces makes it easy to take a short reading break whenever you could use a good laugh.
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