The Best American Humorous Short Stories

English · 1920 · 11h 13m · Short Stories, Humor, Anthologies

This anthology gathers eighteen American humorous short stories published between 1839 and 1914, bringing together work by both well-known writers and lesser-known authors.

Spanning more than seven decades, the collection offers a range of comic voices and situations rather than a single continuous story. Its historical breadth makes it a snapshot of how American humor changed across the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth.

Edited by Alexander Jessup, the volume was originally accompanied by an extensive introduction, which is omitted from this audiobook edition. Listeners can go straight to the stories themselves, each a self-contained entry in the collection.