Masterpieces of American wit and humor Volume 4 Thomas Lansing Masson 9781178203905 Books
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Masterpieces of American wit and humor Volume 4 Thomas Lansing Masson 9781178203905 Books
This book, dated 1903, opens with an essay titled "A Plea for Humor," in which Agnes Repplier bemoans the contemporary craze for moral seriousness in all literature and argues for wit; the rest is a collection of humorous/witty stories, essays, poems (the poems are badly formatted, without line breaks) and excerpts. The table of contents (non-navigable) is as follows:Agnes Repplier, "A Plea for Humor"
Marietta Holley, "An Unmarried Female"
Fitzhugh Ludlow, "Selections from a Brace of Boys"
Robert Jones Burdette, "Rheumatism Movement Cure"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "An Aphorism and a Lecture"
Joshua S. Morris, "The Harp of a Thousand Strings"
Seba Smith, "My First Visit to Portland"
William Cullen Bryant, "The Mosquito"
John Carver, "Country Burial-Places"
Danforth Marble, "The Hoosier and the Salt-Pile"
Anne Bache, "The Quilting"
Fitz-Greene Halleck, "A Fragment / Domestic Happiness"
Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward"), "One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters / On 'Forts'"
James Russell Lowell, "Without and Within"
Louisa May Alcott, "Street Scenes in Washington"
Albert Bigelow Paine, "Mis' Smith"
James Jeffrey Roohe, "A Boston Lullaby"
Charles Graham Halpine, "Irish Astronomy"
Samuel Minturn Peok, "Bessie Brown, M.D."
Robert C. Sands, "A Monody"
Carolyn Wells, "The Poster Girl"
James Gardner Sanderson, "The Conundrum of the Golf Links"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Minister's Wooing"
William Dean Howells, "Mrs. Johnson"
Anonymous, "The Trout, The Cat, and the Fox" / "The British Matron"
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Masterpieces of American wit and humor Volume 4 Thomas Lansing Masson 9781178203905 Books Reviews
I'm not sure if you will enjoy these old chestnuts unless you're a student of old time comedy. I really didn't care for this too much. But if you're bored with nothing to do on a Saturday night, give it a read!
It takes a little patience to read the 19 century styles. Mark Twain is still the master with Wodehouse close but some of the other stories don't hold up as well
Read for style and culture.
Just what I wanted, and at a great price, too.
Interesting but poorly edited. I would have enjoyed it more if -- I don't know. I just couldn't get into it. I kept putting it aside, hoping for better to come.
this is the toc promised
Agnes Repplier, "A Plea for Humor"
Marietta Holley, "An Unmarried Female"
Fitzhugh Ludlow, "Selections from a Brace of Boys"
Robert Jones Burdette, "Rheumatism Movement Cure"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "An Aphorism and a Lecture"
Joshua S. Morris, "The Harp of a Thousand Strings"
Seba Smith, "My First Visit to Portland"
William Cullen Bryant, "The Mosquito"
John Carver, "Country Burial-Places"
Danforth Marble, "The Hoosier and the Salt-Pile"
Anne Bache, "The Quilting"
Fitz-Greene Halleck, "A Fragment / Domestic Happiness"
Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward"), "One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters / On 'Forts'"
James Russell Lowell, "Without and Within"
Louisa May Alcott, "Street Scenes in Washington"
Albert Bigelow Paine, "Mis' Smith"
James Jeffrey Roohe, "A Boston Lullaby"
Charles Graham Halpine, "Irish Astronomy"
Samuel Minturn Peok, "Bessie Brown, M.D."
Robert C. Sands, "A Monody"
Carolyn Wells, "The Poster Girl"
James Gardner Sanderson, "The Conundrum of the Golf Links"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Minister's Wooing"
William Dean Howells, "Mrs. Johnson"
Anonymous, "The Trout, The Cat, and the Fox" / "The British Matron"
and this is the toc that arrived on my kindle
THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839) George Pope Morris
THE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844) Edgar Allan Poe
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland
THE WATKINSON EVENING (1846) Eliza Leslie
TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854) George William Curtis
MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859) Edward Everett Hale
A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865) Mark Twain
ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards
THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston
THE NICE PEOPLE (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner
THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897) Frank Richard Stockton
COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901) Bret Harte
THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902) O. Henry
BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905) George Randolph Chester
A CALL (1906) Grace MacGowan Cooke
HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911) William James Lampton
GIDEON (1914) Wells Hastings
free is a great price. but truth in advertising should still apply. let the buyer beware ... with this kindle book you do not get what is promised.
I read books from the era this one was written in, as a matter of fact, almost all of the books that I read are from the late 1800's and early 1900's. I understand the way books in that era are written, and some of them are very funny. So this book has no excuse. Some of the stories (about 20% of them) were somewhat interesting and funny, but the rest of the "humor" was simply boring, a little uncouth, and would be considered (in the time period it was written in) to be vulgar. I would have given it one star if it wasn't for a couple of pretty good stories, paricularly the one about the bachelor uncle and the one entitled "The minister's wooing".
This stuff isn't funny. No wit, no humor. Maybe it was considered witty in days of yore, but those folks have passed on. It really should have been labeled something else, maybe "Odd Essays From The American Past" or something. And as for "masterpieces" that is just a lie. It's a collection of essays on various subjects that probably were considered clever stuff, maybe even thigh slappers, way back when. Not now.
This book, dated 1903, opens with an essay titled "A Plea for Humor," in which Agnes Repplier bemoans the contemporary craze for moral seriousness in all literature and argues for wit; the rest is a collection of humorous/witty stories, essays, poems (the poems are badly formatted, without line breaks) and excerpts. The table of contents (non-navigable) is as follows
Agnes Repplier, "A Plea for Humor"
Marietta Holley, "An Unmarried Female"
Fitzhugh Ludlow, "Selections from a Brace of Boys"
Robert Jones Burdette, "Rheumatism Movement Cure"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "An Aphorism and a Lecture"
Joshua S. Morris, "The Harp of a Thousand Strings"
Seba Smith, "My First Visit to Portland"
William Cullen Bryant, "The Mosquito"
John Carver, "Country Burial-Places"
Danforth Marble, "The Hoosier and the Salt-Pile"
Anne Bache, "The Quilting"
Fitz-Greene Halleck, "A Fragment / Domestic Happiness"
Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward"), "One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters / On 'Forts'"
James Russell Lowell, "Without and Within"
Louisa May Alcott, "Street Scenes in Washington"
Albert Bigelow Paine, "Mis' Smith"
James Jeffrey Roohe, "A Boston Lullaby"
Charles Graham Halpine, "Irish Astronomy"
Samuel Minturn Peok, "Bessie Brown, M.D."
Robert C. Sands, "A Monody"
Carolyn Wells, "The Poster Girl"
James Gardner Sanderson, "The Conundrum of the Golf Links"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Minister's Wooing"
William Dean Howells, "Mrs. Johnson"
Anonymous, "The Trout, The Cat, and the Fox" / "The British Matron"
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