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 seven of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by fourteen of Twain's contemporaries, including Artemus Ward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells.Chuckle through twenty-seven unabridged stories from the most popular 19th-century humorists, selected by Mr. Twain himself. No guarantees of political correctness, but sure to tickle the modern funny bone. Includes the following:
Mark Twain: "The Jumping Frog", "A Restless Night", "European Diet", "Experience of the McWilliamses and Membraneous Croup", "Our Italian Guide", "Abelard and Heloise", and "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"
Charles Dudley Warner: "A Fight with a Trout", "Plumbers", and "Pie"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich: "How We Astonished the Rivermouthians"
Eugene Field: "His First Day of Editing"
William D. Howells: "Trying to Understand a Woman", "Love's Young Dream", "Kitty Answers"
James M. Bailey: "The Female Base Ball Nine"
Joel Chandler Harris, aka Uncle Remus: "The Tar Baby", "Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox"
Robert J. Burdette: "The Haunted Room", "Wrecked in Port"
Sam Davis: "The First Piano in a Mining Camp"
Artemus Ward: "Fourth of July Oration"
Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The Parson's Horse Race"
Mrs. Francis Lee Pratt: "Captain Ben's Choice"
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "A Visit to the Asylum for the Aged and Decayed Punsters"
Frederick W. Cozzens: "Getting a Glass of Water"
Katherine Kent Child Walker: "The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things"