Item Details
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
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.