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The Smart Set Correspondence & ConversationsFitch, Clyde, 1865-1909enThe Makeway ball -- The plaintiff -- The summer -- The children -- Maternity -- A letter of introduction -- Wagner, 1897 -- Art -- Sorrow -- The theatre -- The opera -- A perfect day -- The Westington's Bohemian dinner -- The gamblers.2009-03-10
Openings in the Old TrailHarte, Bret, 1836-1902enA Mercury of the Foot-Hills -- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff -- The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel -- A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance -- The Reincarnation of Smith -- Lanty Foster's Mistake -- An Ali Baba of the Sierras -- Miss Peggy's Protégés -- The Goddess of Excelsior.American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories2006-05-18
The Best American Humorous Short StoriesenEdited and introduced by Alexander JessupThe little Frenchman and his water lots -- The angel of the odd -- The schoolmaster's progress -- The Watkinson evening -- Titbottom's spectacles -- My double; and how he undid me -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Elder Brown's backslide -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -- The nice people -- The Buller-Podington compact -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Bargain day at Tutt House -- A call -- How the widow won the deacon -- Gideon.2004-02-01




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