Mark Twain's Library of HumorCharles L. Webster & Company, 1888 - 707 pages "Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados. |
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... hours before sundown , reached the lake . If I live to my dying - day , I never shall forget its appearance . The lake is almost an exact circle , about a quarter of a mile in diameter . The forest about it was untouched by axe , and ...
... hour had come . Three trout leaped into the air . The danger of this manœuvre all fishermen understand . It is one of the commonest in the woods : three heavy trout taking hold at once , rushing in different directions , smash the ...
... hour , and I was getting ex- hausted . We had been back and forth across the lake , and round and round the lake . What I feared was , that the trout would start up the inlet , and wreck us in the bushes . But he had a new fancy , and ...
... hours , that astonishing father did not offer to account for their origin . The author's chief object in introducing them was , however , soon disclosed . Friday , who presently appeared , and whose lack of any ostensi- ble origin was ...
... . This is the story , as it was told in one of the leisure hours at the Legation last summer : " There was a man , Mustapha by name , who lived near the Golden Gate . He was well off , and when 54 MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY OF HUMOR . XIII.
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