Model Memoirs and Other Sketches from Simple to Serious
This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Book Details
| Title: | Model Memoirs and Other Sketches from Simple to Serious | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1938 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | The Bodley Head | ||||||||||
| Tags: | essay, humour, Canadian wit and humour | ||||||||||
| Description: | I. MODEL MEMOIRS (1) My Victorian Girlhood (2) Through Arabia on a Mule (3) Up and Down Downing Street (4) So This Is the United States (5) The Criminal Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte II. MODEL MONOLOGUES (1) Mrs. Uplift Betters Society (2) Mrs. Newrich Buys Antiques (3) Mrs. Eiderdown Roughs It in the Bush (4) Mrs. Easy Has Her Fortune Told III. THE DISSOLUTION OF OUR DINNER CLUB INTERLEAF STORY. How Teachers Swim IV. HOW TO LOSE MONEY (FOR AMATEURS) V. THE FAMILIAR MAGIC OF FISHING VI. OVERWORKING THE ALPHABET VII. ON THE NEED FOR A QUIET COLLEGE INTERLEAF STORY. Removal Problem Solved VIII. TURN BACK THE CLOCK INTERLEAF STORY. Quality Does It IX. COME OUT INTO THE GARDEN INTERLEAF STORY. All Nice People X. THE ANATOMY OF GLOOM INTERLEAF STORY. A Dip into Psychology XI. THEN AND NOW INTERLEAF STORY. Thrown Out XII. WHAT I READ THEN; WHAT YOU READ NOW INTERLEAF STORY. Feeding Time XIII. HAND ME DOWN THAT BOOK ... [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Pages: | 94  |
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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