This illustrated anthology gathers comic prose and verse from across nineteenth-century American writing: James Whitcomb Riley’s Knee-Deep in June, Eugene Field’s Baked Beans and Culture, dialect poems such as Yawcob Strauss, speeches, sketches of school examinations and childish prattle, and many more, with an index of American humorists at the back.
A broad sampler of the jokes, dialects and tall tales that made Americans laugh in the Gilded Age. Download the free EPUB.