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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by H. C. Bunner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best American Humorous Short Stories by H. C. Bunner The Best American Humorous Short Stories is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by H. C. Bunner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best American Humorous Short Stories by H. C. Bunner et al. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature, but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second--although a close second--to the short story standard. (Edited by Alexander Jessup.) We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Download or read book The Best American Humorous Short Stories written by Alexander Alexander Jessup and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although every literary tradition has its own rich vein of humor writing, there's something about American humor that sets it apart from the pack in terms of accessibility and lack of pretension. This volume includes writings from such luminaries of the genre as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Edgar Allen Poe, and the brevity of most of the collected pieces makes it easy to take a short reading break whenever you could use a good laugh.
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