FREE BOOKS

Author's List




entries : 3
<<<   1  
titlecreatorlanguagedescriptiontableOfContentscontributorsubjectcreated
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




Top keywords:

plaintiff

 

Colonel

 

Starbottle

 

American

 
Titbottom
 

evening

 

Watkinson

 

spectacles

 

progress

 

double


Edited

 

introduced

 

Stories

 
Humorous
 
Alexander
 
Jessup
 

Frenchman

 

schoolmaster

 

decayed

 

Hargraves


Bargain

 

duplicity

 

compact

 
Buller
 

Podington

 

deacon

 
Gideon
 
people
 

jumping

 
Calaveras

celebrated
 

punsters

 
County
 

Fluker

 
experience
 

backslide

 

asylum

 
Excelsior
 

theatre

 

perfect


Sorrow

 
Wagner
 

Westington

 

Bohemian

 
Openings
 

dinner

 

gamblers

 

introduction

 
letter
 

Conversations