The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The Best American Humorous Short Stories
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Publisher : The Floating Press
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9781877527647
ISBN-13 : 1877527645
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Book Synopsis The Best American Humorous Short Stories by : Alexander Jessup

Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by Alexander Jessup and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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