Mark Twain's Library of Humor

Author Washington Irving

Illustrated by E.W. Kemble

Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr.

Edited by Mark Twain

Series edited by Steve Martin

Series Modern Library Humor and Wit

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Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.

$37.00

May 30, 2000

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Washington Irving (1783–1859) is generally credited with being the father of the American short story and was the first American writer to achieve international renown.