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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    by Alexander Jessup ...
    The stories in "The Best American Humorous Short Stories" cover a wide range of humorous styles and themes. Some are classic examples of satire, such as Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which pokes fun at the pretensions of the literary establishment. Others, like Ring Lardner's "Haircut," use dark humor to explore the darker side of human nature. Still others, such as ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    by Alexander Jessup ...
    The Best American Humorous Short Stories Alexander Jessup - A Different Kind of Humor The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren't humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    by Alexander Jessup, GP Editors ...
    Alexander Jessup has collected some of the best in American humorous short stories into one volume. The truly great American storytellers are represented in this volume. Edgar Allan Poe who is known primarily for his horror stories is represented here with his story The Angel of the Odd. Edward Everett Hale has written a delightful story entitled My Double: And How He Undid Me. A Visit to the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    by Alexander Jessup ...
    Stories include:The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots (1839) George Pope Morris;The Angel of the Odd (1844) Edgar Allan Poe;The Schoolmaster's Progress (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland;The Watkinson Evening (1846) Eliza Leslie;Titbottom's Spectacles (1854) George William Curtis;My Double; and How He Undid Me (1859) Edward Everett Hale;A Visit to The Asylum For Aged and Decayed Punsters (1861) ... Read more

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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    by Alexander Jessup ...
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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

    Edited by Alexander Jessup ...
    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 ... Read more

    $5.59 CAD

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2012

    Edited by Tom Perrotta, Heidi Pitlor ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The acclaimed author "assembles a stellar collection of twenty stories that create their own worlds in twenty pages or less" ( USA Today ).Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction."In Nathan ... Read more

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  • The Classic Humor MEGAPACK ®

    45 Short Stories and Poems

    by O. Henry, Saki, Ellis Parker Butler, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, James Whitcomb Riley, May Isabel Fisk ...
    From Mark Twain to O. Henry, from Saki to Washington Irving—The Classic Humor Megapack reels in no less than 45 classic short stories and poems sure to amuse. Read and laugh!Included are:THE STRIKE OF ONE, by Elliott FlowerTHE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, by Mark TwainA DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER, by O. HenryLAURA, by SakiTEETH IS TEETH, by Ellis Parker ButlerARAMINTA AND THE AUTOMOBILE, ... Read more

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2024

    by Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor ...
    A collection of the year’s best contemporary fiction, these short stories are selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Weird Crime MEGAPACK®

    25 Weird Tales of Crime and Mystery

    by Talmage Powell, Fletcher Flora, Robert Moore Williams, Rufus King, H. L. Mencken, William J. Wintle, Tom Worth, W.C. Morrow, Lillian B. Hunt, Steve Fisher, Victor Rousseau, Gerald Vance, Emil Petaja, Thomas Burke, Robert Leslie Bellem, H.B. Hickey, George T. Wetzell, Charles V. De Vet, Theodore R. Cogswell ...
    Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022

    A Collection

    by Jess Walter, Steph Cha ...
    Series series Best American
    A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.New York Times bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook