The best American humorous short stories
Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Eliza Leslie, Bret Harte, George William Curtis, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Frank R. Stockton, George Pope Morris, O. Henry, Alexander Jessup, Caroline M. Kirkland, Edward Everett, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Henry Cuyler Bunner, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, Wells Hastings
