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The Best Humorous American Short Stories
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt, John Burlinson, Andy Harrington, P. J. Morgan
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Best Humorous American Short Stories
Compiled by Alexander Jessup
Narrated by Cate Barratt, John Burlinson, Andy Harrington, and P.J.Morgan
In compiling this collection of humorous short stories by both well known and more obscure authors, Alexander Jessup applied a broad interpretation of humor; the stories span the period between 1839 and the beginning of the first World War.
This Voices of Today recording contains 16 stories.
- The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots, by George Pope Morris
- The Angel of the Odd, by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Schoolmaster's Progress, by Caroline Mathilda Stansbury Kirkland
- The Watkinson Evening, by Eliza Leslie
- Titbottom's Spectacles, by George William Curtis
- My Double, and How He Undid Me, by Edward Everett Hale
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain
- Elder Brown's Backslide, by Harry Stillwell Edwards
- The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker, by Richard Malcolm Johnston
- The Nice People, by Henry Cuyler Bunner
- The Buller-Podington Compact, by Frank R. Stockton
- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, by Bret Harte
- The Duplicity of Hargraves, by O. Henry
- Bargain Day at Tutt House, by George Randolph Chester
- A Call, by Grace MacGowan Cooke
- How the Widow Won the Deacon, by William J. Lampton
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