Short Classic Jokes

A career-spanning collection, bringing together the most celebrated stories of outdoor misadventures by the beloved five-time New York Times bestselling humorist Patrick F. McManus Here are the most hysterical and heartwarming accounts of Patrick F. McManus’s incompetence at camping, hunting...

Arkady Averchenko - brilliant writer of humorous stories and novels, which have stood the test of time. His works have enjoyed enormous popularity in pre-revolutionary Russia, and after the exile - among the Russian diaspora. His stories are really funny, subtle and clever - a rare combination for a comedian. And they are written in excellent literary style.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This tale, one of Twain's most anthologized, tells the story of a practical joke and its very unexpected consequences.