Literary Lapses -- A Book of Sketches
This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Book Details
| Title: | Literary Lapses -- A Book of Sketches | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1910 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Gazette Printing Company, Limited | ||||||||||
| Tags: | compendium, fiction, humour, Canadian wit and humour, New Canadian Library | ||||||||||
| Description: | Preface My Financial Career Lord Oxhead's Secret Boarding-House Geometry The Awful Fate Of Melpomenus Jones The New Food A New Pathology The Force Of Statistics Getting The Thread Of It Telling His Faults Winter Pastimes Number Fifty-six The Conjurer's Revenge Hints To Travellers A Manual Of Education The Life Of John Smith On Collecting Things Society Chat-Chat Borrowing A Match A Lesson In Fiction Helping The Armenians An Experiment With Policeman Hogan Self-Made Men A Model Dialogue Reflections On Riding Saloonio A, B, and C [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 103 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 58  |
Author Bio for Leacock, Stephen Butler
Stephen Butler Leacock (December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944) was a Canadian political scientist, and writer and humourist. He was extremely popular around the world, indeed, between 1915 and 1925 he was the most popular and widely read humourist in the English-speaking world.
Perhaps his most famous books were Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, two of his thirty-five books of humour. He wrote twenty-eight books of non-fiction, his first was the famous Elements of Political Science.
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