Stephen Leacock

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The internationally acclaimed Canadian humorist, Stephen Leacock produced over thirty books of light-hearted sketches and essays. The beguiling fantasies and hilarious tales of ‘Literary Lapses’ (1910), ‘Nonsense Novels’ (1911) and ‘Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town’ (1912) helped launch Leacock’s career as a master writer of humour. He also produced learned and well-researched non-fiction books, including important historical works on his beloved home of Canada and reviews of literary figures. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Leacock’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Leacock’s life and works
* All 27 short story collections, with individual contents tables
* Features rare books appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Hellements of Hickonomics’
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare non-fiction works available in no other collection, including ‘How to Write’ and ‘Our British Empire’
* Includes Leacock’s play and autobiography
* Features Peter McArthur’s seminal biography – discover Leacock’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Fiction
Literary Lapses
Nonsense Novels
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Behind the Beyond
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Further Foolishness
Essays and Literary Studies
Frenzied Fiction
The Hohenzollerns in America
Winsome Winnie
My Discovery of England
College Days
Over the Footlights
The Garden of Folly
Winnowed Wisdom
Short Circuits
The Iron Man and the Tin Woman
Laugh with Leacock
The Dry Pickwick
Afternoons in Utopia
Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill
Model Memoirs
Too Much College
My Remarkable Uncle
Happy Stories
Last Leaves

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Play
“Q”: A Farce in One Act

The Non-Fiction
Elements of Political Science
Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government
Adventurers of the Far North
The Dawn of Canadian History
The Mariner of St. Malo
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
Mackenzie, Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks
Economic Prosperity in the British Empire
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens: His Life and Work
Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples
The Greatest Pages of American Humor
Humor and Humanity
Here Are My Lectures
My Discovery of the West
Our British Empire
Canada: The Foundations of Its Future
Our Heritage of Liberty
Montreal: Seaport and City
Canada and the Sea
While There is Time
How to Write

The Autobiography
The Boy I Left Behind Me

The Biography
Stephen Leacock by Peter McArthur