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Коллектив авторов. 33 лучших юмористических рассказа на английском / 33 Best Humorous Short Stories
John Kendrick Bangs
A Psychical Prank
I
II
The Ghost Club. An unfortunate episode in the life of No. 5010
Ambrose Bierce
Curried Cow
The Widower Turmore
Bret Harte
The Stolen Cigar Case
Miss Mix
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Found among the papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker
Stephen Leacock
Nonsense Novels
Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective
‘Q.’ A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural
Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry
Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen
A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft
Sorrows of a Super Soul: or, The Memoirs of Marie Mushenough (Translated, by Machinery, out of the Original Russian.)
Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty
Soaked in Seaweed: or, Upset in the Ocean (An Old-fashioned Sea Story.)
Caroline’s Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant
The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future
The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing
How We Kept Mother’s Birthday. As Related by a Member of the Family
Murder at $2.50 a Crime
Jack London
That Spot
The Terrible Solomons
O. Henry
The Ransom of Red Chief
Tommy’s Burglar
The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
The Hiding of Black Bill
The Octopus Marooned
Shoes
The Handbook of Hymen
A Lickpenny Lover
The Ethics of Pig
Confessions of a Humorist
Saki
The Story-Teller
Mark Twain
Favourite Extracts from ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’
Tom Meets a Stranger
Tom and the Fence
Sunday School Visitors
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
Running for Governor
Punch, Brothers, Punch
The Stolen White Elephant
I
II
III
A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco
Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
Mrs. McWilliamsand the Lightning
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
Notes
John Kendrick Bangs
A Psychical Prank
The Ghost Club
Ambrose Bierce
Curried Cow
The Widower Turmore
Bret Harte
Miss Mix
Chapter III
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Stephen Leacock
Nonsense Novels
Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective
Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen
A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft
Sorrows of a Super Soul: or, The Memoirs of Marie Mushenough
Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty
Murder at $2.50 a Crime
Jack London
That Spot
The Terrible Solomons
O. Henry
The Ransom of Red Chief
Tommy’s Burglar
The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes
The Hiding of Black Bill
The Octopus Marooned
Shoes
The Handbook of Hymen
A Lickpenny Lover
The Ethics of Pig
Confessions of a Humorist
Mark Twain
Favourite Extracts from ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’
Tom Meets a Stranger
Tom and the Fence
Sunday School Visitors
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
Running for Governor
The Stolen White Elephant
I
II
III
A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco
Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
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Willis had met Miss Hollister but once, and that, for a certain purpose, was sufficient. He was smitten. She represented in every way his ideal, although until he had met her his ideal had been something radically different. She was not at all Junoesque, and the maiden of his dreams had been decidedly so. She had auburn hair, which hitherto Willis had detested. Indeed, if the same hirsute wealth had adorned some other woman’s head, Willis would have called it red. This shows how completely he was smitten. She changed his point of view entirely. She shattered his old ideal and set herself up in its stead, and she did most of it with a smile.
There was something, however, about Miss Hollister’s eyes that contributed to the smiting of Willis’s heart. They were great round lustrous orbs, and deep. So deep were they and so penetrating that Willis’s affections were away beyond their own depth the moment Miss Hollister’s eyes looked into his, and at the same time he had a dim and slightly uncomfortable notion that she could read every thought his mind held within its folds—or rather, that she could see how utterly devoid of thought that mind was upon this ecstatic occasion, for Willis’s brain was set all agog by the sensations of the moment.
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‘Would you mind telling me what your defence was?’ I asked.
‘Certainly not,’ said he, cheerfully. ‘I’d be very glad to give it to you. But you must remember one thing – it is copyrighted.’
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