Mark Twain's Library of HumorCharles L. Webster & Company, 1888 - 707 páginas "Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados. |
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... stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'l a long time , and at last he says , ' I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw'd off for - I wonder if there ain't something the matter with him -he ' pears to look mighty baggy ...
... stood . He the hot iron gehammered and sjhod horses for fifty cents all round please . He made tin hjelmets for the gjodds , and stove pjipe trousers for the hjeroes . Mimir was a rival blacksmith . He didn't go in very much for ...
... stood up in the presence of a royal and illustrious assemblage , and when his antagonist had finished , he looked about him and stammered a commencement ; but his courage failed him , the cunning of his tongue was gone ; with his speech ...
... stood on iron . " Mrs. Sparrowgrass asked me what he meant by that . I replied , it was a figurative way of expressing , in horse - talk , that he was as good a horse as ever stood in shoe- leather . " He's a handsome hos , squire ...
... " The next moment I heard something breaking away in front , and then the Rockaway gave a lurch and stood still . Upon examination I found the new horse had tumbled down , broken one shaft , gotten 80 MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY OF HUMOR .
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