Autor: Irvin S Cobb

A classic late 19th-century US detective story!Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first …

A satirical story about one man’s decision to leave the city.Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were c …

The famous book of wartime culinary memoirs by Irvin S. Cobb.Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War for the magazine. At the same time, he …

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose tit …

Mr. Cobb’s commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real joy of t …

A classic work of fiction featuring Judge Priest, dramatic and compelling, using a wealthy of precisely rendered detail to evoke a powerful mood.Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening …

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose tit …

“It had been a successful party, most successful. Mrs. Carroway’s parties always were successes, but this one nearing its conclusion stood out notably from a long and unbroken Carrowayian record. It …

A disturbing, and luckily impossible to implement, story of a demagogue driven to destruction by the press. He has to be destroyed because he is treasonous–he preaches peace when the country want wa …

Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him no objec …

A collection of three short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, telling the comic misadventures of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D.Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Sa …

Speaking of Operations is a monologue about the author’s experience in having an operation in 1915 written in his typical tongue-in-cheek style.American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Pa …

Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and the problems of having a large one; teeth, hair and finally han …

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose tit …

This is a short novel in which the author makes the case for the value of dime novels as a more fun, immediate read than the 'classic’ books more in favor with parents and educators. He looks back on …

Okay, let’s confront the elephant in the room and get this out of the way so we can talk about Irvin S. Cobb, J. Exodus Poindexter, and this remarkable book.The title, J. Poindexter, Colored, is poli …

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose tit …

A classic from Irvin Cobb.Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judg …

“There was a house in this town where always by night lights burned. In one of its rooms many lights burned; in each of the other rooms at least one light. It stood on Clay Street, on a treeless plot …

Felix Looms, the well-known author, disappeared – or, rather, he went away – on or about June fifteenth, four years ago. He told his friends, his landlady and his publisher – he had no immediate fami …

American humorist and newspaper columnist for The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan, Cobb is best known for his Judge Priest stories.Contents: The Lord Provides; A Blending of the Parables; Judg …

Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose tit …

“Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every person who likes both travel and humor, because it’s hysterically funny. Cobb comes across in …

What is enclosed between these covers was written as a series of first hand impressions during the fall and early winter of 1914 while the writer was on staff service for The Saturday Evening Post in …

Read in the light of WW2, this book is chilling.Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War for the magazine. At the same time, he wrote a book …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘’Speaking of Operations’.   Speaking of Operations is a monologue about the author’s experience in having an operation in 1915 wr …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘A Plea for Old Cap Collier.’   This is a short novel in which the author makes the case for the value of dime novels as a more fu …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Cobb’s Bill-of-Fare.’   Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, be …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Eating in Two or Three Languages.’   The famous book of wartime culinary memoirs by Irvin S. Cobb.   Cobb joined the staff o …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Europe Revised.’   Mr. Cobb’s commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gi …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Fibble, D.D..’   A collection of three short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, telling the comic misadve …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Local Color.’   Felix Looms, the well-known author, disappeared – or, rather, he went away – on or about June fifteenth, …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Roughing it De Luxe.’   “Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘The Abandoned Farmers.’   A satirical story about one man’s decision to leave the city.   Cobb is remembered best fo …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘The Escape of Mr. Trimm.’   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American lite …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘The Thunders of Silence.’   A disturbing, and luckily impossible to implement, story of a demagogue driven to destruction by the …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Those Times And These.’   A classic work of fiction featuring Judge Priest, dramatic and compelling, using a wealthy of precisely …

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘One Third Off.’   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regio …