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"Old pieces of humor are like antique toys: Some of them still work and some don't, but they all have a certain fascination. Especially if we know that they worked for Mark Twain. And when you find one that does still work after, say, a century and a half, if you are like me you say things like 'Look at that workmanship' to cover your wonderment at sharing inner-child glee with someone who was in the grave when your grandmother was born. To my surprise, I feel that way about a good many pieces in this book." --from the Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr."Mark Twain is the Lincoln of our literature."--William Dean Howells
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th the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.
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Series: Modern Library Humor and Wit
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; Later Printing edition (May 30, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679640363
ISBN-13: 978-0679640363
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 1.3 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.5 out of 5 stars
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I've been looking for this book for years, since first reading a hard copy version of it in a Shreveport library. Unfortunately the editing of the Kindle edition is HORRIBLE. The book has a large compendium of essays and you simply cannot navigate to ANY location with ease. By the time you've found the essay you want, you've become tired of the interface. I'd rather have the actual book. Don't bother with the Kindle edition, it's more trouble that it's worth. A hyperlink to the stories from the table of contents would be wonderful. Another flaw is many words are not transcribed correctly. Symbols like parenthesis, dashes and slashes are substituted for actual letters in some of the words, which makes a translation impossible to decipher. I bought the book for humor but cannot find humor in an impossible navigation of meaninglessness. I do NOT understand the Kindle approach to so called passages. The location index at the bottom of pages are not helpful at all! Pages, I say! I want PAGES! Page navigation! Table of contents links!
Badly scanned with lots of gibberish instead of the sentences from the book. Needs to be redone.
Interesting writer certainly very humorous.
I knew this was a compilation of stories by a number of authors but there were just a few written by Mark Twain and, given the title, I was expecting more Twain stories.
The title on the cover is "The Library of Wit and Humor, by Mark Twain and Others", but the book in fact was edited by Melville D. Landon, A.M., who wrote funny under the pen name of "Eli Perkins". Landon's lectures on wit, humor, satire, and so on, are of no great value. "Eli Perkins" was mentioned by Mark Twain as one of a list of well-known 19th Century humorists who arose to prominence in his day and were forgotten. He comes across as a good-natured self-promoter. Example: General Benjamin Butler claiming to have known the three worst liars in the world: "One was Mark Twain, and the other two were Eli Perkins."I owned a copy of the book 40 years ago, and bought this one (from Amazon) as a trip back. The book was first printed in 1883; this copy was printed in 1898 on cheap paper that has turned brown, and the binding is tearing loose, but otherwise it's in good shape. So I can't comment on the modern reprints. I saw some complaints about the shortage of Twain pieces, but that's not his fault. He had nothing to do with the book. It's illustrated with full-page steel engravings of pen and ink pics, quite good. Unfortunately, there is no table of contents, though the book is broken into segments on wit, humor, pathos (pathetic pieces!), satire, and so on.Re-reading it, I find that most of the bits I remember were pretty good. They were, Squire Skaggs and the Pharaoh Men, p. 18; Eli Perkins' Book Agent, p. 20; A Fifth Avenue Episode, p. 63; Stanley Huntley's "Les Incomprehensibles" by Victor You Go, p. 74 (an especially good one); Honesty that Surprised the Miner, p. 78; Bill de Fire p. 96 (the title is too specific); Rubenstein's Piano Playing (this has been reprinted since, sometime it the 1960s I think), p. 98; Too Inquisitive, p 107; A Sharp Bargain, p. 109; Mark Antony's Oration Over Caesar, by R. W. Griswold, p 121; Kyle's Satire on the Dude, p. 220; The Honest Book-Agent, p. 244; Eli Perkins Tells How They Swindled a Poor Clergyman, p. 312 (the three-card monte men); The Harp of a Thousand Strings (sermon from 1859, also reprinted in the 20th Century), p. 333.I also remember Baley on "Cording" a Bedstead, p. 60, not because it's very funny, but because I've assisted at that operation. I also remember Gough's Druggist Story, p 166; Eli Perkins's Sermon, p. 335, and An Officer of the Weather Bureau in Topeka, p. 210 — remember them though they're not very funny. Perkins's sermon I remember because it's a glimpse into the cultural history of the Gilded Age.I remembered quite a large number upon re-reading, but I kept no count of those.Is it any good? Well. I remembered 19 items for 40 years, totaling maybe 25 pages at most — out of 438. It's a joke book. You don't read it through, you pick it up and skim a little here and there. Parts are good. Parts are offensive to modern ears. The N-word is used freely. Oddly, though, I found the racism less offensive than what I remember from some Bennett Cerf joke books published in the 1930s or 40s, which I read in my high school library in the early 60s. In both the attitude toward blacks was patronizing at best, but in this earlier book, blacks were allowed to show genuine wit and wisdom; in Cerf's books I don't remember that. Cerf's male blacks were usually called "Rastus"; the name doesn't appear in Landon's book.Much of the book is in dialect; people were taught to read by phonics in those days and could handle it. The stereotype of the Irishman, by the way, was much like that of the black, patronizing but good-natured, and also told in dialect. There are sections on medical humor, lawyer and court humor, satire and ridicule, repartee, and so on.The only joke book I read like a book was "Isaac Asimov Laughs Again," and his discussions of humor were better than Landon's. Landon's book I would recommend mainly for its literary historical value, to people who would like a glimpse of what white middle-class Americans laughed at in the last quarter of the 19th Century.
What's so special? Originally published in 1888, this book was a collection of short stories by Americanauthors of the 19th century, some of whom were long dead by its publication. Each author featuredwas hand selected by Mark Twain. I just hear your remarks: "Bore-ing." Not by a long shot. Some of thisstuff is as outrageous today as it was then. All the authors were well known in their day, but many are nowobscure. I defy anyone to read say: "Sicily Burns's Wedding" by George W. Harris and not laugh themselves to tears.Not only is the book funny, but for anyone interested in a glimpse of the 19th century through the eyes of anauthor who lived it, the book is a treasure.
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