This book is nothing more than what its title describes, a collection of 35 short stories that vary in length from four to eighteen pages, and come from an extraordinarily wide range of sources – Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope, James Thurber, Jerome K. Jerome and Charles Dickens being some examples.
Unusually for a FS book, it has no illustrations in its 400 pages, but the stories are just right for reading one at a time in bed before drifting of to sleep with a faint smile. General light entertainment would be the best description, rather than hilariously funny (with a couple of exceptions).