Bret Harte et al

The names read like a whos who in the pantheon of American writers: Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte. Given readers enthusiasm for Twains humor, Poes versatility, Hartes Westerns, and Holmess literary genius, its no surprise that someone would put their works together. That person was Alexander Jessup, who compiled over a dozen of Americas best short stories and edited them together to create The Best American Humorous Short Stories. This edition of The Best American Humorous Short Stories is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with pictures of the authors.