The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor

Contains

Canonical title

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor

Original title

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor

Original publication date

1963

Disambiguation notice

Contents:

• Introduction
• Franklin P. Adams / The Rich Man
• Sholom Aleichem / Cnards
• Robert Thomas Allen / Women Have No Sense of Humor
• Steve Allen / The Late Mr. Adams
• Kingsley Ami... (show all)s / Who Needs No Introduction
• Cleveland Amory / Tuxedo
• Richard Armour / Money
• Alex Atkinson / The Upturned Plate
• Marcel Aymé / The Man Who Walked Through Walls
• D. H. Barber / The Egg
• Sir James M. Barrie / My Smoking Table
• Jerome Beatty, Jr. / The Elusive Private Fetsko
• Max Beerbohm / A Point to Be Remembered by Very Eminent Men
• Ludwig Bemelmans / The Homesick Bus Boy
• Robert Benchley / Call for Mr. Kenworthy!
• Morris Bishop / Ambition
• J. B. Boothroyd / You Have to Be Born with It
• Burt Boyar / The Wrong Side of the Room
• Hal Boyle / Ask Me Another
• Roark Bradford / Eve and That Snake
• Louis Bromfield / Our Parrot
• Heywood Broun / Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun
• Art Buchwald / The Time Killer
• Geraldine Bussey / The Silver Scream
• Ellis Parker Butler / Pigs Is Pigs
• Patrick Campbell / Back-Seat Drivers
• Truman Capote / A Ride Through Spain
• Al Capp / Memories of Miss Mandelbaum
• Bennett Cerf / Babes in the Hollywoods
• John Collier / Mary
• Lesley Conger / On Being Translated into English
• Noël Coward / Weatherwise
• Carl Crane / The Reader Writes
• John Crosby / Chestnuts Are in Bloom Again
• Parke Cummings / A Philosophy of Punitive Action
• Will Cuppy / Madame du Barry
• Richard Curtis / The Secret of Dynamic Pulp-Pushing
• Clarence Day / Father Wakes Up the Village
• Paul de Vergie / Mother Married an Oboe Player
• Peter de Vries / Household Words
• Jack Douglas / The Boy Who Cried Dinosaur
• Lord Dunsany / The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise
• Gerald M. Durrell / The King and His Beasts
• Max Eastman / The Definition of Wit
• H. F. Ellis / Story Without a Moral
• Bergen Evans / The Sorry Scheme of Thing
• Evoe / The Mental Cure
• Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. / One Reel of Autobiography
• William Faulkner / Two Soldiers
• Margaret Fishback / In Extremis
• Jack Finney / The Little Courtesies
• F. Scott Fitzgerald / Financing Finnegan
• Peter Fleming / Advice to the Reader
• Corey Ford / How to Guess Your Age
• C. S. Forester / The Bedchamber Mystery
• Robert Frost / The Hardship of Accounting
• Pauline Gale / Sheet Music
• John Galsworthy / Day's Work
• Wolcott Gibbs / Do Re Mi
• William Schwenk Gilbert / Etiquette
• Harry Golden / Why I Never Bawl Out a Waitress
• Jack Goodman and Alan Green / Come One, Come One
• Jack Goodman and Albert Rice / The Law of the Bungle
• Robert Graves / Traveler's Curse After Misdirection
• C. A. E. Green / A Moving Picture
• Milt Gross / Looey, Dot Epsom-Minded Dope, Nearly Buys a Huss
• Giovanni Guareschi / A Confession
• Arthur Guiterman / On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
• Thomas Hardy / The Ruined Maid
• Moss Hart / Collaboration with Kaufman
• Ben Hecht / The Whistling Corpse
• Thomas Heggen / Nature Study
• O. Henry / The Ransom of Red Chief
• Joseph Heller / The Texan
• Sir A. P. Herbert / To the Lady Behind Me at the Theater
• Mark Hollis / Careless Talk
• A. E. Housman / When Adam Day by Day…
• Colin Howard / Ascension and Declination of Sirius
• Evan Hunter / Uncle Jimbo's Marbles
• Joseph Henry Jackson / Weasels in the Corn Meal
• Shirley Jackson / The Third Baby's the Easiest
• W. W. Jacobs / The Persecution of Bob Pretty
• Jerome K. Jerome / Overhauling a Bicycle
• Alva Johnston / The Sport
• William Johnston / Two Doctors in One Act
• E. J. Kahn, Jr. / All Right, I Heard You the First Time
• George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart / The Man Who Came to Dinner
• Eric Keown / Passing Strange
• Jean Kerr / Go, Josephine, in Your Flying Machine
• Alexander King / The Advertising World
• Eric Knight / All Yankees Are Liars
• Arthur Kober / Put the Hand to the Mouth
• J. M. Kucera / On Speaking Russian
• Alexis Ladas / The Seal That Couldn't Swim
• Ring Lardner / Mr. and Mrs. Fixit
• Stephen Leacock / Gertrude the Governess; or, Simple Seventeen
• A. Y. Lee / Secretary Yang and His Courtroom
• Newman Levy / The Scandalous Tale of Percival and Genevieve
• Sinclair Lewis / Mr. Babbitt's Morning
• Leslie Lieber and Charlie Rice / Take a Missionary
• A. J. Liebling / Indians, Heels and Tenants
• Art Linkletter / Spinning the Family Circle
• Richard Lockridge / One Comes Quietly
• Edmund G. Love / Subways Are for Sleeping
• Betty MacDonald / Please Keep Imogene
• Russell Maloney / The Memoirs of a Bankrupt
• Don Marquis / Warty Bliggens, the Toad
• John Masefield / Book and Bookplate
• Donald Mattam / In a Town Garden
• W. Somerset Maugham / A Friend in Need
• André Maurois / The Birth of a Great Artist
• Milton Mayer / The Girl from Sewickley, Pa.
• David McCord / Fugitive from Chess
• Ruth McKenney / Guinea Pig
• John McNulty / Two Bums Here Would Spend Freely Except for Poverty
• Shepherd Mead / How to Stop Being a Junior Executive
• H. L. Mencken / The Girl from Red Lion, P. A.
• Scott Meredith / The Dilemma of Lance O'Neill
• J. B. Morton / The Lodging-House Letters
• Ogden Nash / Wild Life
• Newsbreaks from The New Yorker
• G. H. M. Nichols / An Interview with the Man with the Ное
• Eric Nicol / Pets in the Press
• John O'Reilly / But of Course It Sells More Copies If It's Banned in Boston
• Barry Pain / Mrs. Murphy on Honesty
• Dorothy Parker / Re-enter Margot Asquith
• A. Northcote Parkinson / The Short List; or, Principles of Selection
• S. J. Perelman / Call and Follow, I Follow!
• Talmage Powell / The Compleat Robin
• Ellery Queen / “My Queer Dean!”
• R. A. A. Robertson / Kultur
• Will Rogers / Spring Is Here, with Poems and Bathtubs
• Billy Rose / The Rod and Gun Club
• Leonard Q. Ross / Mr. K*a*p*l*a*n, the Comparative and the Superlative
• Leo Rosten / Groucho: The Man from Marx
• Damon Runyon / The Old Doll's House
• Saki / The Storyteller
• William Saroyan / Ever Fall in Love with a Midget?
• Fred Schwed, Jr. / Hammie
• George Bernard Shaw / How He Lied to Her Husband
• Max Shulman / The Day I Was Examined
• H. Allen Smith / Chiefly About Hugh Troy
• Philip A. Stalker / Talk
• Francis Steegmuller / The Foreigner
• John Steinbeck / Beans
• Donald Ogden Stewart / The Etiquette of Courtship
• Frank Sullivan / Yvonne
• Edward Streeter / Rehearsal
• Booth Tarkington / Talleyrand Penrod
• Robert Lewis Taylor / The Drinking Habits of W. C. Fields
• James Thurber / The Lady on the Bookcase
• Irving D. Tressler / So You Live in a Suburb?
• Mark Twain / Honorary Degrees
• William Hazlett Upson / I'm a Natural-Born Salesman
• John van Druten / The Blind Spot
• Bill Vaughan / A Suggestion for the Discriminating Traveler
• Evelyn Waugh / A Visit to Azania
• Joseph Wechsberg / The First Time I Saw Paris
• E. B. White / The Wings of Orville
• Earl Wilson / Silver-Tongued Orators
• P. G. Wodehouse / Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit
• Alexander Woollcott / Capsule Criticism
• Herman Wouk / Irresistible Force
• C. B. Wyndham-Lewis / The Case of the Village Blacksmith
• Index by Authors
• Index by Titles