ISBN: 9780307959379

Description: xxv, 716 pages.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

• The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County
• The story of the bad little boy
• Cannibalism in the cars
• A day at Niagara
• Legend of the Capitoline Venus
• Journalism in Tennessee
• A curious dream
• The facts in the great beef contract
• How I edited an agricultural paper
• A medieval romance
• My watch
• Political economy
• Science vs. luck
• The story of the good little boy
• Buck Fanshaw’s funeral
• The story of the old ram
• Tom Quartz
• A trial
• The trials of Simon Erickson
• A true story
• Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup
• Some learned fables for good old boys and girls
• The canvasser’s tale
• The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale
• The man who put up at Gadsby’s
• Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning
• What stumped the bluejays
• A curious experience
• The invalid’s story
• The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm
• The stolen white elephant
• A burning brand
• A dying man’s confession
• The professor’s yarn
• A ghost story
• Luck
• Playing courier
• The Californian’s tale
• The diary of Adam and Eve
• The esquimau maiden’s romance
• Is he living or is he dead?
• The L1,000,000 bank-note
• Cecil Rhodes and the shark
• The joke that made Ed’s fortune
• A story without an end
• The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
• The death disk
• Two little tales
• The belated Russian passport
• A double-barreled detective story
• The five boons of life
• Was it heaven? or hell?
• A dog’s tale
• The $30,000 bequest
• A horse’s tale
• Hunting the deceitful turkey
• Extract from Captain Stormfield’s visit to heaven
• A fable
• The mysterious stranger

Control Number: 852875

Series:

• Everyman's library
• Everyman's library ; 346
• Everyman's library ; no.346.

Subjects:

• Short stories, American.
• Short stories.

Genre: Fiction.

Other Authors: Gopnik, Adam.