Mark Twain's Library of HumorCharles L. Webster & Company, 1888 - 707 من الصفحات "Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados. |
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... once . " Rev. Leonidas W. H'm , Reverend Le — well , there was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley , in the winter of '49 , or maybe it was the spring of '50 -I don't recollect exactly , somehow , though what makes me think it ...
... once that didn't have no hind legs , because they'd been sawed off in a cir cular saw , and when the thing had gone along far enough , and the money was all up , and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt , he see in a minute how he ...
... once evident that the unruffled waters had never been vexed by the keel of a boat . But what chiefly attracted my attention , and amused me , was the boiling of the water , the bubbling and breaking , as if the lake were a vast kettle ...
... once , rushing in different directions , smash the tackle into flinders . I evaded this catch , and threw again . I recall the moment . A hermit thrush , on the tip of a balsam , uttered his long , liquid , evening note . Happen- ing to ...
... Once they were lively talkers enough ; but there the grim sea - dogs lay , silent and forlorn in spite of all their former growlings . They always seemed to me like a lot of venerable HOW WE ASTONISHED the riveRMOUTHIANS . 19.
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