Mark Twain's Library of Humor

by Mark Twain, Charles Hopkins Clark (Compiler), Charles Hopkins Clark (Editor), William Dean Howells (Compiler), William Dean Howells (Editor)

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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.… (more)

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Anthology of short works by Mark Twain and his contemporaries, including some well known stories and authors and others that were new to me. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Mark Twain	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Clark, Charles Hopkins	Compiler	main author	all editions	confirmed
Clark, Charles Hopkins	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Howells, William Dean	Compiler	main author	all editions	confirmed
Howells, William Dean	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed

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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.

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