Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Book Details
| Title: | Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1915 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | S. B. Gundy | ||||||||||
| Tags: | compendium, fiction, humour, Canadian wit and humour, New Canadian Library | ||||||||||
| Description: | PREFACE I—Spoof. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. II—The Reading Public. III—AFTERNOON ADVENTURES AT MY CLUB The Anecdotes of Dr. So and So The Shattered Health of Mr. Podge The Amazing Travels of Mr. Yarner The Spiritual Outlook of Mr. Doomer The Reminiscences of Mr. Apricot The Last Man out of Europe The War Mania of Mr. Jinks and Mr. Blinks The Ground Floor The Hallucination of Mr. Butt IV—Ram Spudd V—Aristocratic Anecdotes VI—Education Made Agreeable VII—An Every-Day Experience VIII—Truthful Oratory IX—Our Literary Bureau X—Speeding Up Business XI—Who Is Also Who XII—Passionate Paragraphs XIII—Weejee the Pet Dog XIV—Sidelights on the Supermen XV—The Survival of the Fittest XVI—The First Newspaper XVII—In the Good Time After the War [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 61 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 81  |
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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