Author:Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
(1876–1944)
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American author, humorist, and columnist authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories; known for humorous stories of Kentucky; Speaking of Operations (1916), and an anti-prohibition ode to bourbon, Red Likker (1929). Pen name: Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb


Works

  • Funabashi, 1907 musical comedy
  • Mr. Busybody, 1908 musical comedy
  • Cobb's Anatomy, 1912 book
  • Cobb's Bill of Fare, 1913 book
  • Roughing It Deluxe, 1914 book
  • Europe Revised, 1914 book
  • Back Home, 1912, produced as a comedy, 1915
  • Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front (expanded as The Red Glutton), 1915 book
  • Speaking of Operations, 1915 book (external scan)
  • Speaking of Prussians, 1917 book
  • The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South, 1917 booklet
  • The Thunders of Silence, 1918 book
  • The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace and Allied Endeavor, 1919 book
  • Eating in Two or Three Languages, 1919 book (external scan)
  • The Life of the Party, 1919 book (external scan)
  • Oh Well You Know How Women Are - Isn't That Just Like a Man (1920; with Mary Roberts Rinehart)
  • A Plea for Old Cap Collier, 1921 book (external scan)
  • One Third Off, 1921 book (external scan)
  • J. Poindexter, Colored, 1922 book
  • Myself to Date, 1923 book (Stickfuls: Compositions of a Newspaper Minion) (external scan)
  • Goin' on Fourteen: Being Cross-sections Out of a Year in the Life of an Average Boy (1924) (external scan)
  • Indiana: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
  • Kansas: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924) (external scan)
  • Kentucky: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
  • Maine: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
  • New York: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
  • North Carolina: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924) (external scan)
  • Alias Ben Alibi (1925) (external scan)
  • Some United States: A Series of Stops in Various Parts of This Nation With One Excursion Across the Line (1926) (external scan)
    • Maine: The One That's So Rugged
    • Kansas: Land of His Brother's Keeper
    • California: The Mystery of the double Yolk
    • Kentucky: "Be It Ever So Humble—"
    • New York: You'd Hardly Know the Old Place Now
    • Wyoming: The Battle-Hen of the Republic
    • Texas: It's 150 Miles to the Front Gate
    • Wisconsin: Abounding in Fish and Politics
    • Oregon: Youbetcherland
    • Oregon Again: The Bear that Hunted Me
    • Virginia: She'll Say She Is!
    • New Jersey: Just Behind Those Billboards
    • Indiana: In the Haunt of the Vice Presidents
    • North Carolina: Needing a Press Agent
    • Arizona: The Simple Tourist—Yes Isn't He?
    • Louisiana: The Flavor Lasts
    • Over the Line: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and a Moose or Two
  • Chivalry Peak (1927) (external scan)
  • All Aboard: Saga of the Romantic River (1928) (external scan)
  • This Man's World (1929) (external scan)
  • Red Likker (1929) (external scan)

Short Story Collections

  • Talks with the Fat Chauffeur, 1909 collection
  • Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People, 1912 collection (external scan)
  • The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and Other Plights, 1913 collection (external scan)
  • Irvin Cobb at his Best, 1915 collection
  • Old Judge Priest, 1916 collected stories (external scan)
  • Fibble, D.D., 1916 collection
  • Local Color, 1916 collection (external scan)
  • Those Times and These, 1917 collection (external scan)
  • The Works of Irvin S. Cobb (14 volumes), 1912-20 collections
  • The Abandoned Farmers, 1920 collection
  • From Place to Place (1920) (external scan)
    • The Gallowsmith
    • The Thunders of Silence
    • "Boys Will be Boys", 1918 (external scan)
    • The Luck Piece
    • Quality Folks
    • John J. Coincidence
    • When August the Second was April the First
    • Hoodwinked
    • "The Bull Called Emily" (1921) (external scan)
  • Speaking of Operations—" and Other Stories (1923) (external scan).hathitrust.org/Record/102873377
  • Snake Doctor and Other Stories (1923) (external scan)
    • "The Snake Doctor"
    • "One Block from Fifth Avenue"
    • "--That He Shall Also Reap"
    • "Red Handed"
    • "Otherwise Sweet William"
    • "His Mother's Apron Strings"
    • "This Hero Business"
    • "The Eminent Dr. Deeves"
    • "The Second Coming of a First Husband"
  • A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: His Favorite Stories as Told by Irvin S. Cobb, 1923 collection (external scan)
  • Many Laughs for Many days; Another Year's Supply (365) of His Favorite Stories as Told by Irvin S. Cobb.(external scan)
  • Prose and Cons (1925) (external scan)
    • The Chocolate Hyena
    • Plaster of Paris
    • The Silent Partner
    • Who Laughs Last
    • The Parker Hour Roll
    • The Last of the Bourbons
    • Long Pants
    • "Unaccustomed as I Am—"
    • The Thrill of a Lifetime
    • Shakespeare's Seven Ages and Mine
  • On an Island that Cost $24.00 (1926) (external scan)
    • Standing Room Only
    • The Unbroken Chain
    • A Coyote in Central Park
    • Nobody Sees the Water's Face
    • The Power of the Press
    • The Principle of the Thing
    • A Letter to a Relative
    • Button, Button
    • Ace in the Hole
    • The Black duck
  • Ladies and Gentlemen (1927) (external scan)
    • A Lady and a Gentleman
    • The Order of the Bath
    • Two of Everything
    • We of the Old South
    • Killed with Kindness
    • Peace on Earth
    • Three Wise Men of the East Side
    • The Cowboy and the Lady and Her Pa
    • A Close Shave
    • Good Sam
    • How to Choke a Cat Without Using Butter.
  • Irvin Cobb at His Best (1929 omnibus) (external scan)
    • "Speaking of Operations—"
    • Eating in Two or Three Languages
    • The Life of the Party
    • A Plea for Old Cap Collier
    • One Third Off
    • The Young Nuts of America

Individual short works

  • "A Little Town Called Montignies St. Christophe", 1907
  • "The Strange Adventures of the Man who Wrote a Play," (n-f) Munsey's Magazine, 1908
  • "The Escape of Mr. Trimm", 1910 (external scan)
  • "The Exit of Anse Dugmore," Saturday Evening Post, 1911
  • "An Occurrence Up a Side Street," Saturday Evening Post, 1911
  • "Words and Music", 1912 story
  • The Belled Buzzard (1912) (external scan)
  • Fishhead (1913)
  • "Fibble, D.D., Take Pen in Hand," Saturday Evening Post, 1916
  • "According to the Code," Saturday Evening Post, 1916
  • "The Great Auk", 1917 (external scan)
  • "The Gold Brick Twins" (1921) (external scan)
  • "Darkness" (1921)
  • "The Second Coming of Mrs. Bain's First Husband" (1922) (external scan)
  • "A Kind of a Feeling" (1923 Nov, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
  • Goin' on Fourteen (1923–1924, Cosmopolitan) (linked short stories)
  1. "Goin' on Fourteen" (1923 Dec)
  2. "The Prisoner of Chill On" (1924 Jan)
  3. "The Boy Who Was Born to Be Hanged" (1924 Feb)
  4. "The Young Treasure Seekers" (1924 Mar)
  5. "A Day With a Reformed Character" (1924 Apr)
  6. "Entertainment for Man and Beast" (1924 Apr)
  7. "A Crown Prince in Banishment" (1924 June)
  8. "Little Short Pantsleroy" (1924 July)
  9. "The Surprised Party" (1924 Aug)
  10. "Exit Master Grub, Enter Mister Butterfly" (1924 Sept)

As Contributor

  • R.H.D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis By Various Authors of Some Repute (1917) IA, about Richard Harding Davis

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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