Stephen Leacock
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First published in 1918, Frenzied Fiction is a collection of Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's humour sketches. This collection includes such laugh-out-loud works as "My Revelations as a Spy," "The New Education," "Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life," and "In Dry Toronto."
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The still-hilarious parodies in this humorous collection offer ample evidence of Leacock's first-rate comic sensibilities. Highlights include "Maddened by Mystery," a send-up of the detective novel, "Gertrude the Governess," a bodice-ripping romance gone wrong, and "Man in Asbestos," a sci-fi laugh riot.
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Of the uncounted centuries of the history of the red man in America before the coming of the Europeans we know very little indeed. Very few of the tribes possessed even a primitive art of writing. It is true that the Aztecs of Mexico, and the ancient Toltecs who preceded them, understood how to write in pictures, and that, by this means, they preserved some record of their rulers and of the great events of their past. The same is true of the Mayas...
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When a man receives a promotion and a raise, he finds himself forced to face an uncomfortable situation that he has avoided all his life: visiting a bank and opening a bank account.
"My Financial Career" is representative of author Stephen Leacock's writing style in which he pokes fun at social absurdities and irrational behaviour. This short story was adapted into a short animated film in 1962, directed by Gerald Potterton. The film won the award...
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First published in 1916, Further Foolishness is a collection of Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's humour sketches. This collection includes such laugh-out-loud works as "The White House from Without In," "A Study in Still Life-My Tailor," "The Snoopopaths," and "Are the Rich Happy?"
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First published in 1915, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy is a collection of Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's humour sketches. This collection includes such laugh-out-loud works as "The Reading Public," "Our Literary Bureau," "Weejee the Pet Dog," and "In the Good Time After the War."
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The Mariner of St. Malo: A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock. Edited by H. H. Langton and George McKinnon Wrong
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The follow-up to his enormously successful Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's take on life among the American upper-class. With inter-locking stories, Leacock creates a vivid world where money is no object and larger-than-life characters vie to be the centre of attention at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue.
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Stephen Leacock's Adventurers of the Far North is the compelling factual account of Canada's exploration of the polar region and the intrepid explorers who ventured into that vast and unforgiving expanse. It is the twentieth volume in the Chronicles of Canada series, which was published between 1914 and 1916.
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The world's humour, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization.
Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works-and of how it very often doesn't. As well as being remarkably insightful about the various ways in which a joke can fall flat, Humour as I See It is an exceptionally humane testimony from one of the English language's most gifted humourists.
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They say that some people have a difficult time making their excuses and saying goodbye. When, exactly, does one wear out his welcome? The answer to this is found in the awful, yet humorous, fate of one Melpomenus Jones. "The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones" is representative of author Stephen Leacock's writing style where he pokes fun at social absurdities and irrational behaviour. This short story was adapted into a short animated film in 1983.
13) Feast of Stephen
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McClelland & Stewart
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“Do you know the characteristic wine of Madeira?... I do not know whether Leacock ever drank Madeira himself—he was very much a Scotch-whisky man—but I enjoy Madeira greatly, and I never drink it without thinking of Leacock, who was sometimes dry, sometimes sweet, but who always leaves upon the tongue a hint of brimstone..."
In his witty and illuminating introduction, which takes up the first third of the book, Robertson Davies...
In his witty and illuminating introduction, which takes up the first third of the book, Robertson Davies...
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Penguin Canada
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining portrait of small town Ontario. This is Stephen Leacock at his best.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, which first appeared as a newspaper serial, chronicles life in the fictional community of Mariposa, modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where Stephen Leacock spent many summers....
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, which first appeared as a newspaper serial, chronicles life in the fictional community of Mariposa, modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where Stephen Leacock spent many summers....
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This celebrated collection of sketches sparkles with Stephen Leacock’s humour and shines with the warmth of his wit.
The comical E.P., star of the title essay, “My Remarkable Uncle,” is a classic Leacock character. He is president of a railway with a letterhead but no rails, and he heads a bank that boasts credit but no cash whatsoever – all of which trouble E.P. not in the least.
My Remarkable Uncle, a wonderful...
The comical E.P., star of the title essay, “My Remarkable Uncle,” is a classic Leacock character. He is president of a railway with a letterhead but no rails, and he heads a bank that boasts credit but no cash whatsoever – all of which trouble E.P. not in the least.
My Remarkable Uncle, a wonderful...
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This vintage book contains Stephen Leacock's 1912 sequence of stories, "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town". Commonly hailed as being amongst the most important examples of humorous Canadian literature, "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is set in Mariposa, a microcosm of Canadian society populated by hilarious small-town stereotypes. Contents include: "The Hostelry of Mr. Smith", "The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe", "The Marine Excursions of...
17) Literary lapses
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The humour, irony, and wit of Stephen Leacock have never been shown to better advantage than in Literary Lapses, his first collection of comic writings. Within its pages are such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the young man who dies because he cannot tell a lie; the astonishing tale of the baby who ate thirteen Christmas dinners, and many other tales that have become part of the...
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This original NCL collection brings together Leacock’s comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank account. In another, Lord Ronald, the beloved of Gertrude the Governess, “flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” In a third, the Mariposa Belle sinks in the shallow waters of Lake Wissanotti.
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