The comic tradition in America : an anthology /
| Основен автор: | Lynn, Kenneth Schuyler, (ed.) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Garden City, N.Y.,
Doubleday,
1958.
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| Издание: | [1st ed.]. |
| Серия: |
Doubleday anchor books
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| Предмети: | |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Comic tradition in America. |
Съдържание:
- To the editor of the New England Courant ;
- To the editor of a newspaper ;
- Dialogue between Franklin and the gout /
- Benjamin Franklin
- Containing the most horrible battle ever recorded in poetry or prose ;
- Rip Van Winkle. A posthumous writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker ;
- Adventure of the German student /
- Washington Irving
- Georgia theatrics ;
- Fight ;
- Horse-swap /
- A.B. Longstreet
- Major Downing shakes hands for the President at Philadelphia ;
- Cousin Nabby describes the unutterable disappointment at Downingville ;
- Major Downing tells about going to Cambridge and making the President a doctor of laws /
- Seba Smith
- Simon Suggs attends a camp-meeting /
- Johnson J. Hooper
- Big bear of Arkansas /
- T.B. Thorpe
- How to write a Blackwood article ;
- Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences /
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Death of Crockett ;
- Crockett's morning hunt /
- Davy Crockett
- The Lion of the West: act II, scene 2 /
- James Kirke Paulding
- What Mr. Robinson thinks ;
- Second letter from B. Sawin, Esq. ;
- The courtin' /
- James Russell Lowell
- Simon Suggs, Jr., Esq., of Rackinsack-Arkansaw /
- Joseph G. Baldwin
- Parson John Bullen's lizards ;
- Mrs. Yardley's quilting /
- George W. Harris
- Celestial railroad /
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Cock-a-doodle-doo! or the crowing of the noble cock Beneventano ;
- Israel is initiated into the mysteries of lodging /
- Herman Melville
- Expensive treat of Colonel Moses Grice /
- Richard Malcolm Johnston
- Uncle Remus initiates the little boy ;
- Uncle Remus's wonder story /
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ;
- Whittier dinner speech ;
- Frescoes from the past ;
- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses /
- Mark Twain
- Point of view /
- Henry James
- On war preparations ;
- On his cousin George ;
- On reform candidates ;
- Expansion ;
- Book review /
- Finley Peter Dunne.