The Best American Humorous Short Stories, includes stories by Mark Twain and others. Includes stories by: George Pope Morris; Edgar Allan Poe; Caroline M.S. Kirkland; Eliza Leslie; George William Curtis; Edward Everett Hale; Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) Mark Twain; Harry Stillwell Edwards; Richard Malcolm Johnston; Henry Cuyler Bunner; Frank Richard Stockton; Bret Harte; O. Henry; George Randolph Chester; Grace MacGowan Cooke; How the Widow Won the Deacon (1911) - William James Lampton; Gideon (1914) Wells Hastings. This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature.