Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Chapters
1 Introduction 2 min 2 Wouter Van Twiller 11 min 3 Wilhelmus Kieft 7 min 4 Peter Stuyvesant 3 min 5 Antony Van Corlear 5 min 6 General Van Poffenburgh 5 min 7 Maxims 2 min 8 Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with 2 min 9 Epitaph for Himself by Benjamin Franklin 1 min 10 Why He Left 2 min 11 Nothing to Wear 16 min 12 A Boy's Essay on Girls 2 min 13 Deacon Marble 5 min 14 The Deacon's Trout 3 min 15 The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole 4 min 16 Old Grimes 2 min 17 Identified 2 min 18 One Better 2 min 19 My Aunt 3 min 20 Miss Albina McLush 7 min 21 A Smack in School 2 min 22 A Rendition 2 min 23 Fancy Diseases 2 min 24 Bailed Out 2 min 25 Seeking a Comet 1 min 26 Going to California 2 min 27 Mrs. Partington in Court 3 min 28 Miscellaneous 2 min 29 The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful 'One-hoss Shay' 7 min 30 Five Lives 4 min 31 The Owl-Critic 4 min 32 A Cause for Thanks 2 min 33 Little Breeches 4 min 34 Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats 5 min 35 The Yankee Recruit 10 min 36 My Summer in a Garden 20 min 37 Crowded 2 min 38 The Alarmed Skipper 3 min 39 The Wedding Journey 1 min 40 Foreign Correspondence 1 min 41 Our Sumatra Correspondence 5 min 42 Music-Pounding 2 min 43 Living in the Country 22 min 44 Love in a Cottage 2 min 45 A Case of Conscience 1 min 46 Hans Breitmann's Party 2 min 47 Tim Crane and the Widow 10 min 48 The Stammering Wife 2 min 49 He Rose to the Occasion 2 min 50 Polite 2 min 51 Lost, Strayed or Stolen 1 min 52 He Came to Pay 3 min 53 A Gentle Complaint 3 min 54 The Ballad of the Oysterman 2 min 55 A Pleasure Exertion 23 min 56 The Diamond Wedding 9 min 57 What Mr. Robinson Thinks 4 min 58 Music by the Choir 6 min 59 The Notorious Jumping Frog 14 min
