Explore the rich tapestry of American humor with "The Wit and Humor of America" - a meticulously curated anthology spanning ten volumes. Edited by the renowned American humorist Marshall P. Wilder, this collection features the wit of literary giants such as Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, and more. Delve into a diverse array of humorous gems, including funny stories, poems, humorous articles, fables, and fairy tales.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1:
Anatole Dubois at de Horse Show
The Billville Spirit Meeting
The British Matron
The Champion Checker-Player of Ameriky
Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt
A Cry from the Consumer
The Curse of the Competent
Darby and Joan
The Day We Do Not Celebrate
The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"
The Deacon's Trout
A Disappointment
Distichs
Down Around the River
Enough
The Experiences of the A. C.
The Feast of the Monkeys
The Fighting Race
The Grammatical Boy
Grizzly-Gru
John Henry in a Street Car
Laffing
A Letter from Mr. Biggs
A Medieval Discoverer
Melons
The Menagerie
Mrs. Johnson
The Muskeeter
My Grandmother's Turkey-Tail Fan
Myopia
An Odyssey of K's
The Old Maid's House: In Plan
The Organ
Partingtonian Patchwork
Pass
The Pettibone Lineage
A Psalm of Life
The Purple Cow
The Quarrel
Similar Cases
Simple English
Spelling Down the Master
Stage Whispers
Teaching by Example
The Tragedy of It
The Turnings of a Bookworm
Wanted-A Cook
What Mr. Robinson Thinks
When Albani Sang
When the Frost is on the Punkin
Why Moles Have Hands
Wouter Van Twiller
The Yankee Dude'll Do
Volume 2:
An Archæological Congress
Aunt Dinah's Kitchen
Ballad
Barney McGee
The Beecher Beached
A Boy's View of It
Budd Wilkins at the Show
The Colonel's Clothes
Comin' Thu
The Dutchman Who Had the "Small Pox"
An Evening Musicale
Familiar Authors at Work
Fascination
The Golfer's Rubaiyat
Go Lightly, Gal (The Cake Walk)
Grandma Keeler Gets Grandpa Ready for Sunday-School
The Hoosier and the Salt Pile
How Ruby Played
A Letter
The Lost Word
Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum
Mr. Dooley on Gold-Seeking...

Auteur

Marshall P. Wilder (1859-1915) was an American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist. Wilder authored three books over his career, and edited a number of volumes of The Wit and Humor of America and The Ten Books of the Merrymakers.