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Bret Wells
10 books found
Tales of Horror and Mystery
Roald Dahl, Walter De la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Ruth Ainsworth, Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Cresswell, Gene Kemp, Herbert Russell Wakefield, Robert Arthur, Ambrose Bierce, Michael Joseph, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Joan Aiken, Montague Rhodes James, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte, Honoré de Balzac, Nicholas Fisk, Wilkie Collins, Isak Dinesen, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier · First published 1993
A subtreasury of American humor
E. B. White, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Leonard Q. Ross, Frank R. Stockton, Anita Loos, Sinclair Lewis, John Mosher, Edward Streeter, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Kober, Heywood Broun, Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, James Thurber, George Ade, Don Marquis, Ambrose Bierce, Frank Moore Colby, McKelway, St. Clair, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, Charles Heber Clark, Francis Steegmuller, James T. Fields, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Moffat, Donald W., Washington Irving, Orpheus C. Kerr, James Russell Lowell, V. Petroleum Nasby, Finley Peter Dunne, James M. Cain, Frank Sullivan, Eugene Field, Robert C. Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Franklin P. Adams, Wolcott Gibbs, Corey Ford, Nunnally Johnson, Bret Harte, S. J. Perelman, Lucretia P. Hale, Sally Benson, Booth Tarkington, Ogden Nash, Clifford Orr, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Benjamin Franklin, H. L. Mencken, Clarence Day, Kenneth Fearing, E. E. Cummings, Russell Maloney, Geoffrey Hellman, Marc Connelly, Joel Chandler Harris, M, Glen Rounds, A. J. Liebling, George W. Harris, Alfred Henry Lewis, Roark Bradford, Frances Warfield, Morris Bishop, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Billings, Josh, Oliver Herford, Will Cuppy, Alexander Woolcott, Clifton Fadiman, Edgar Allan Poe, Persis Greely Anderson, Phyllis McGinley, Nathan, George Jean, Joseph Mitchell, Alva Johnston, Sanderson Vanderbilt, E. J. Kahn Jr., John McNulty, Angela Cypher, H. C. Bunner, Louis Untermeyer, Irwin Edman, Stephen Vincent Benét, Carolyn Wells, Samuel Hoffenstein, David McCord, Arthur Guiterman, Bert Leston Taylor, Clarence Hollister Knapp, Kenneth Allan Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Richard Lockridge, Lee Strout White, Ruth Ann McKinney, William Saroyan, Ludwig Bemelmans · First published 1941
The best American humorous short stories
Alexander Jessup, George Pope Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Henry Cuyler Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, Wells Hastings · First published 1920