| Author |
Clemens, William Montgomery, 1860-1931 |
| LoC No. |
27007629
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| Title |
Famous funny fellows : Brief biographical sketches of American humorists
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| Original Publication |
Cleveland: William W. Williams, 1882.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens ("Mark Twain") -- Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward") -- Charles Heber Clark ("Max Adeler") -- Charles B. Lewis ("M. Quad") -- Henry W. Shaw ("Josh Billings") -- Jay Charlton Goldsmith ("The P.I. man") -- William Tappan Thompson ("Major Jones") -- Melville D. Landon ("Eli Perkins") -- Charles Fulton Adams ("Yawcob Strauss") -- Seba Smith ("Major Jack Downing") -- Will W. Clark ("Gillhooley") -- Irwin Russell -- John H. Williams ("B. Dadd") -- James M. Bailey ("Danbury news man") -- Charles H. Smith ("Bill Arp") -- A. Miner Griswold ("Fat contributor") -- Bill Nye -- Joseph C. Neal ("Charcoal sketcher") -- George H. Derby ("John Phoenix") -- George W. Peck -- Alexander Edwin Sweet -- Samuel W. Small ("Old Si") -- Charles Hoyt -- Henry Clay Lukens ("Erratic Enrique") -- William A. Wilkins ("Hiram Green, Esq.") -- Charles H. Harris ("Carl Pretzel") -- Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus") -- David Ross Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby") -- Robert Jones Burdette ("The Hawkeye man") -- Joe C. Aby ("Hoffenstein") -- Edward E. Edwards -- Eugene Field -- Stanley Huntley ("Spoopendyke") -- Some other funny fellows.
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| Credits |
Alan, Susan E. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
Humorists, American -- Biography
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| Subject |
American wit and humor -- History and criticism
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
74088 |
| Release Date |
Jul 21, 2024 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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