by Alexander Jessup, George Pope Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Henry Cuyler Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, Wells Hastings
The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor:This volume does not aim to contai…