Mark Twain's Library of Humor

Download or read book Mark Twain's Library of Humor written by Washington Irving and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.