Irvin S. Cobb, Collection

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876 – 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.
Several of Cobb's stories were made into silent films. He also wrote the screen titles. Cobb also had an acting career, appearing in 10 films between 1932 and 1938, with starring roles in such movies as Pepper, Everybody's Old Man (1936), and Hawaii Calls (1938). He was also host of the 6th Academy Awards in 1935.
Cobb is best remembered for his humorous stories of Kentucky local color and for the book Speaking of Operations (1916).
 
In this ebook:
Local Color
Speaking of Prussians
J. Poindexter, Colored
Sundry Accounts
The Life of the Party
Fibble, D. D.
The Thunders of Silence
Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
From Place to Place
Roughing it De Luxe
Eating in Two or Three Languages
One Third Off
Europe Revised
A Plea for Old Cap Collier
"Speaking of Operations--"
Cobb's Anatomy
The Abandoned Farmers, His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm
The Glory of The Coming, What Mine Eyes have seen of Americans in Action in this Year Of Grace and Allied Endeavor
Old Judge Priest, (Sequel to "Back Home")
Those Times And These