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1、TheBestAmericanHumorousShortStoriesAuthor:VariousReleaseDate:February5,2004[EBook#10947]Language:EnglishCharactersetencoding:ISO-8859-1***STARTOFTHISPROJECTGUTENBERGEBOOKAMERICANHUMOR***ProducedbyKeithM.EckrichandPGDistributedProofreadersTHEBESTAMERICANHUMOROUSSHORTSTORIES_Editedby_ALEXAND
2、ERJESSUP,_Editorof"RepresentativeAmericanShortStories,""TheBookoftheShortStory,"the"LittleFrenchMasterpieces"Series,etc._INTRODUCTIONThisvolumedoesnotaimtocontainall"thebestAmericanhumorousshortstories";therearemanyotherstoriesequallyasgood,Isuppose,inmuchthesamevein,scatteredthroughtheran
3、geofAmericanliterature.Ihavetriedtokeepacertainunityofaimandimpressioninselectingthesestories.InthefirstplaceIdeterminedthatthepiecesofbrieffictionwhichIincludedmustfirstofallbenotmerelygoodstories,butgoodshortstories.Iputmyselfinthepositionofonewhowasabouttoselectthebestshortstoriesinthew
4、holerangeofAmericanliterature,[1]butwho,justbeforehestartedtodothis,wasnotifiedthathemustrefrainfromselectinganyofthebestAmericanshortstoriesthatdidnotcontaintheelementofhumortoamarkeddegree.ButIhavekeptinmindthewideboundariesofthetermhumor,andalsothefactthatthehumorousstandardshouldbekept
5、second--althoughaclosesecond--totheshortstorystandard.Inviewofthenecessarylimitationsastothevolume'ssize,IcouldnothopetorepresentallperiodsofAmericanliteratureadequately,norwasthisnecessaryinordertogiveexamplesofthebestthathasbeendoneintheshortstoryinahumorousveininAmericanliterature.Proba
6、blyalltypesoftheshortstoryofhumorareincludedhere,atanyrate.NotonlycopyrightrestrictionsbutinameasuremyownopinionhavecombinedtoexcludeanythingbyJoelChandlerHarris--_UncleRemus_--fromthecollection.Harrisisprimarily--inhisbestwork--ahumorist,andonlysecondarilyashortstorywriter.Asahumoristheis
7、ofthefirstrank;asawriterofshortstorieshisplaceishardlysohigh.Hishumorisnotmerefunninessanddiversion;heisahumoristinthefundamentalandlargesense,asareCervantes,Rabelais,andMarkTwain.Nobookisdullerthanabookofjokes,forwhatisrefreshinginsmalldosesbecomesnauseatingw
