A Sub-Treasury of American Humor

by Katherine White and E.B. White

Book Overview

In this, the most famous book of this kind, American humor is presented at its best and freshest. No effort was made by the editors to make this collection the most complete of the most historically... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000OLC1FM
• Release Date: January 1941
• Publisher: Coward McCann
• Length: 814 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Large Selection of Authors

This hardback book was copyrighted in 1941 and has over 800 pages. It is divided into 13 sections. Over 100 authors are featured in this book. Three selections from George Ade's "Fables in Slang", appear here. Booth Tarkington's humorous "Whitey", about two enterprising boys and an old horse is featured. H.L. Mencken's keen observations of life appear in "The Wedding". Mark Twain has numerous selections. Also appearing are works by Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe and Oliver Wendell Holmes. So the topics and authors of this compilation are broad and interesting.

Buy this book. You won't regret it.

I can't recommend this book highly enough. It introduced me to many authors I didn't know about, and it revealed new sides of the ones I did. Mark Twain's criticism of James Fenimore Cooper is worth the price of the book alone.