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The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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“The Best American Humorous Short Stories” is a collection of eighteen short stories by several nineteenth century masters of the form including Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry. The complete list of stories and their authors is as follows:

The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots by George Pope Morris
The angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe
The Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline M.S. Kirkland
The Watkinson Evening by Eliza Leslie
Titbottom's Spectacles by George William Curtis
My Double; and how he Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Elder Brown's Backslide by Harry Stillwell Edwards
The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard Malcolm Johnston
The Nice People by Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Buller-Podington Compact by Frank Richard Stockton
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff by Bret Harte
The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry
Bargain Day at Tutt House by George Randolph Chester
A Call by Grace MacGowan Cooke
How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton
Gideon by Wells Hastings

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can read through the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on 'Start where I left off...' to continue reading at the point at which you last closed the eBook.

The eBook application allows you to change the text's font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

The application keeps track of your current position in the text as you read and saves this position when you close the application. Upon relaunching the application, you can easily resume reading at the position of this virtual bookmark.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested

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Last changed:

Apr 25, 2009

Category:

Books

Developer:

Matthew Szenher

Version:

1.0

Average Rating:

5.00 (1)

Size:

0.3 MB

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