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    The Classic Humor MEGAPACK ®: 45 Short Stories and Poems
    The Classic Humor MEGAPACK ®: 45 Short Stories and Poems
    The Classic Humor MEGAPACK ®: 45 Short Stories and Poems
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    The Classic Humor MEGAPACK ®: 45 Short Stories and Poems

    By O. Henry, Mark Twain, Bret Harte and

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    From Mark Twain to O. Henry, from Saki to Washington Irving—The Classic Humor Megapack reels in no less than 45 classic short stories and poems sure to amuse. Read and laugh!


    Included are:


    THE STRIKE OF ONE, by Elliott Flower

    THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, by Mark Twain

    A DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER, by O. Henry

    LAURA, by Saki

    TEETH IS TEETH, by Ellis Parker Butler

    ARAMINTA AND THE AUTOMOBILE, by Charles Battell Loomis

    THE RHYME OF THE CHIVALROUS SHARK, by Wallace Irwin (poem)

    ESPECIALLY MEN, by George Randolph Chester

    THE ANGEL OF THE ODD, by Edgar Allan Poe

    THE SIEGE OF DJKLXPRWBZ, by Ironquill (poem)

    THE SCHOOLMASTER’S PROGRESS, by Caroline M.S. Kirkland

    THE WATKINSON EVENING, by Eliza Leslie

    THE MILLIONAIRES, by Max Adeler

    THE WICKED ZEBRA, by Frank Roe Batchelder (poem)

    TITBOTTOM’S SPECTACLES, by George William Curtis

    MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME, by Edward Everett Hale

    A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

    AS GOOD AS A PLAY, by Horace E. Scudder

    THE CRIMSON CORD, by Ellis Parker Butler

    WANTED—A COOK, by Alan Dale

    MRS. JOHNSON, by William Dean Howells

    COLONEL STERETT’S PANTHER HUNT, by Alfred Henry Lewis

    UNSATISFIED YEARNING, by R. K. Munkittrick (poem)

    WOUTER VAN TWILLER, by Washington Irving

    THE EXPERIENCES OF THE A.C., by Bayard Taylor

    THE CHAMPION CHECKER-PLAYER OF AMERIKY, by James Whitcomb Riley

    ELDER BROWN’S BACKSLIDE, by Harry Stillwell Edwards

    THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER, by Richard Malcolm Johnston

    THE NICE PEOPLE, by Henry Cuyler Bunner

    THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT, by Frank R. Stockton

    COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF, by Bret Harte

    THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES, by O. Henry

    AN EVENING MUSICALE, by May Isabel Fisk

    BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE, by George Randolph Chester

    THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS, by George Pope Morris

    THE GRAMMATICAL BOY, by Bill Nye

    A CALL, by Grace MacGowan Cooke

    HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON, by William James Lampton

    THE INVENTIONS OF THE IDIOT, by John Kendrick Bangs

    THE HEN, by Saki

    THREE MEN IN A BOAT (To Say Nothing of the Dog), by Jerome K. Jerome

    WHO DO YOU THINK DID IT? by Stephen Leacock

    OLD POLKA DOT’S DAUGHTER, by Bill Nye

    THE RUBÀIYÀT OF OHOW DRYYÀM, by J. L. Duff (poem)

    THE GOLFER’S RUBÁIYÁT, by H. W. Boynton (poem)


    And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see all the entries in the Megapack series -- including volumes of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, classics, and much, much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateApr 22, 2013
    ISBN9781434446541
    The Classic Humor MEGAPACK ®: 45 Short Stories and Poems
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    O. Henry

    O. Henry (1862-1910) was an American short story writer. Born and raised in North Carolina, O. Henry—whose real name was William Sydney Porter—moved to Texas in 1882 in search of work. He met and married Athol Estes in Austin, where he became well known as a musician and socialite. In 1888, Athol gave birth to a son who died soon after, and in 1889 a daughter named Margaret was born. Porter began working as a teller and bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Austin in 1890 and was fired four years later and accused of embezzlement. Afterward, he began publishing a satirical weekly called The Rolling Stone, but in 1895 he was arrested in Houston following an audit of his former employer. While waiting to stand trial, Henry fled to Honduras, where he lived for six months before returning to Texas to surrender himself upon hearing of Athol’s declining health. She died in July of 1897 from tuberculosis, and Porter served three years at the Ohio Penitentiary before moving to Pittsburgh to care for his daughter. While in prison, he began publishing stories under the pseudonym “O. Henry,” finding some success and launching a career that would blossom upon his release with such short stories as “The Gift of the Magi” (1905) and “The Ransom of Red Chief” (1907). He is recognized as one of America’s leading writers of short fiction, and the annual O. Henry Award—which has been won by such writers as William Faulkner, John Updike, and Eudora Welty—remains one of America’s most prestigious literary prizes.

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