Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

Author: Various

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13:

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"Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature" is a collection of humorous stories by different American writers like Louisa May Alcott, John William Forest, John Townsend Trowbridge, John William de Forest, Frances Lee Pratt, and others. The book collects the best works of humor and satire by the named authors and presents a great picture of the American humorous genre.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

Author: Various

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781530441938

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"[...]those days. In fact, I think you partially saw through them then. But I was younger, and far from being so clearheaded, and I looked upon those evenings at Shelldrake's as being equal, at least, to the symposia of Plato. Something in Mallory always repelled me. I detested the sight of his thick nose, with the flaring nostrils, and his coarse, half-formed lips, of the bluish color of raw corned-beef. But I looked upon these feelings as unreasonable prejudices, and strove to conquer them, seeing the admiration which he received from others. He was an oracle on the subject of 'Nature.' Having eaten nothing for two years, except Graham bread, vegetables without salt, and fruits, fresh or dried, he considered himself to have attained an[...]".

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

Author: Edward T. Mason

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781688825321

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Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature - Edited by Edward t. Mason - Includes: BAYARD TAYLOR - WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER - JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST - JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE - OLIVER BELL BUNCE - CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER - FRANCES LEE PRATT - LOUISA MAY ALCOTT - WILLIAM WIRT HOWE - CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE - FRANK R. STOCKTON - HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD - SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS - FITZ HUGH LUDLOW - THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)
Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Author: David E. E. Sloane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1351181548

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The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution, these humorous articles, sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence.