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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... thought the public would stand it . We need not say that , if he could have had his way throughout , this Library would have consisted solely of extracts from his own books . But he was afraid the public would not stand it , not because ...
... thought it was going to be all Mark Twain , and perhaps of convincing him that there are other humorists besides his favorite author . Another advantage in the arrangement adopted , is that the reader will often be obliged to go through ...
... thought from the first the governor wouldn't let me go . I don't think Pepper was quite honest in that . But to the subject in hand . Among the few changes that had taken place in Rivermouth during the past twenty years , there is one ...
... thought Silas ; " somebody else is tryin ' tu git control of the market . But I guess I've got the start of him . " So he went on buying and buying , oftentimes paying double the original price of the article . People in the neighboring ...
... thought the town was being bombarded ; some thought the world was coming to an end , as the pious and ingenious Mr. Miller had predicted it would ; but those who couldn't form any theory whatever were the most perplexed . In the mean ...
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