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Klappentext Anthology of entertaining tales features works by Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, James Thurber, and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Tale of Diedrich Knickerbocker by Washington Irving Selecting the Faculty by Robert Carlton "The Jumping Frog": In English. Then in French. Then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More, by Patient, Unremunerated Toil by Mark Twain Bill Nations by Bill Arp A Jersey Centenarian by Bret Harte How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner The Parson's Horse Race by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia P. Hale Uncle Remus and the Wonderful Tar-Baby Story by Joel Chandler Harris His Pa Gets Mad! by George W. Peck John Adams' Diary by Bill Nye Active Colorado Real Estate by Hayden Carruth The Idiot's Journalism Scheme by John Kendrick Bangs Rollo Learning to Read by Robert J. Burdette The Wish and the Deed by Max Adeler Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) The Crimson Cord by Ellis Parker Butler The Life Elixir of Marthy by Elizabeth Hyer Neff The Tale of the Tangled Telegram by Wilbur D. Nesbit The Set of Poe by George Ade Our Very Wishes by Harriet Prescott Spofford The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber Wooing the Muse by Langston Hughes The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Gift by Kia Penso Flight Control by Jervey Tervalon How to Fight with Your Wife by Howard Kaplan Center of the Universe by Simon Rich
