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Mark Twain's library of humor

A generous sampling of 145 short stories from America's most popular humorists of the 19th century and 29 other great American humorists.

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  • "Library of humor"@en
  • "Library of humor"

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  • "A generous sampling of 145 short stories from America's most popular humorists of the 19th century and 29 other great American humorists."@en
  • "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.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • ""160 pieces" "including pieces by Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Eugene Field, Joel C. Harris, Bret Harte, Oliver W. Holmes, William D. Howells, Bill Nye, Mark Twain, Artemus Ward" and others."
  • ""160 pieces" "including pieces by Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Eugene Field, Joel C. Harris, Bret Harte, Oliver W. Holmes, William D. Howells, Bill Nye, Mark Twain, Artemus Ward" and others."@en
  • "A collection of nineteenth-century comedic works by forty-five authors, including twenty by Mark Twain, who chose the other works included in this anthology."
  • "A collection of writings by 45 American humorists of the 19th century."@en
  • "Twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires of forty-three of Twain's contemporaries."@en
  • "This 1888 volume offers Twain's anthology of humorous works."@en

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  • "Humor"@en
  • "Humor"

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  • "Mark Twain's library of humor"
  • "Mark Twain's library of humor"@en
  • "Mark Twain's library of humor : Illustr. by E. W. Kemble. With a new forew. by Clarence Gohdes"
  • "Mark Twain's Library of humor : with 197 illustrations by E.W. Kemble"
  • "Mark Twain's Library of humor"@en
  • "Mark Twain's Library of Humor"
  • "Mark Twain's Library of Humor"@en

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