Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 7 (Humour, Satire and Tall Tales) : The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain, When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.

Contents:

The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry

The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry

What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

The Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)

The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter Hebel

From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner

When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Micromegas: A Philosophical History by Voltaire

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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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