Best American Humorous Short Stories
Alexander Jessup , Various
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Length 11 h 14 min
Chapters 19
First published 1920
Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omitted from this LibriVox audio book. (Summary by David Wales)
Chapters
1
The Little Frenchman And His Water Lots Read by David Wales 14:38
2
The Angel Of The Odd Read by David Wales 27:19
3
The Schoolmaster's Progress Read by David Wales 40:35
4
The Watkinson Evening Read by David Wales 43:22
5
Titbottom's Spectacles Read by David Wales 1:02:35
6
My Double; And How He Undid Me Read by David Wales 48:48
7
A Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Punsters Read by David Wales 17:22
8
The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County Read by David Wales 16:10
9
Elder Brown's Backslide Read by David Wales 45:02
10
The Hotel Experience Of Mr. Pink Fluker Read by David Wales 30:19
11
The Nice People Read by David Wales 22:25
12
The Buller-Podington Compact Read by David Wales 43:33
13
Colonel Starbottle For The Plaintiff - Part 1 Read by David Wales 37:33
14
Colonel Starbottle For The Plaintiff - Part 2 Read by David Wales 37:42
15
The Duplicity Of Hargraves Read by David Wales 34:25
16
Bargain Day At Tutt House Read by David Wales 54:46
17
A Call Read by David Wales 34:09
18
How The Widow Won The Deacon Read by David Wales 17:59
19
Gideon Read by David Wales 44:49
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens gutenberg.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
