Periods:
1800 - 1860
Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book. 1820
Irving, Washington. A History of New York.
1860 - 1899
Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. (1906)
Twain, Mark. Roughin' It. 1871
Twain, Mark. Collected Short Stories. 1865-1880
Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer. 1886
1900 - 1919
Henry, O. Collected Short Stories
1920 - 1939
Hughes, Langston. The Semple Series.
Hurston, Zora Neale & Langston Hughes. Mule Bone.
Rogers, Will. B. B. Sterling's A Will Rogers Treasury. 1982
1940 - 1959
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. 1940.
Heller, Joseph. Catch - 22. 1955
Thurber, James. In R.N. Linscott's Best American Humorous Short Stories.
1940-1960
1960 - 1979
Bruce, Lenny. John Cohen's The Essential Lenny Bruce.
1980 - 1999
Rock, Chris. Rock This! 1997