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Book Synopsis Leacock on Life by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Leacock on Life written by Stephen Leacock and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Leacock's views on life provide a uniquely Canadian take on the world, an ironic perspective which continues to delight and instruct readers around the globe. An anthology of Leacock's wit and wisdom.
Book Synopsis Literary Lapses by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Literary Lapses written by Stephen Leacock and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My financial career.-- Lord Oxhead's secret.-- Boarding-house geometry.-- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones.-- A Christmas letter.-- How to make a million dollars.-- How to live to be 200.-- How to avoid getting married.-- How to be a doctor.-- The new food.-- A new pathology.-- The poet answered.-- The force of statistics.-- Men who have shaved me.-- Getting the thread of it.-- Telling his faults.-- Winter pastimes.-- Number fifty-six.--Aristocratic education.-- The conjurer's revenge.-- Hints to travellers.-- A manual of education.-- Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas.-- The life of John Smith.--On collecting things.-- Society chit-chat.-- Insurance up to-date.-- Borrowing a match.-- A lesson in fiction.-- Helping the Armenians.-- A study in still life, the country hotel.-- An experiment with Policeman Hogan.-- The passing of the poet.-- Self-made men.-- A model dialogue.-- Bach to the bush.--Reflections on riding.-- Saloonio.-- Half-hours with the poets: Mr. Wordsworth and the cottage girl; How Tennyson killed the May queen; Old Mr. Longfellow on board the Hesperus. --A, B, and C.
Book Synopsis Charles Dickens: His Life and Work by : Stephen Butler Leacock
Download or read book Charles Dickens: His Life and Work written by Stephen Butler Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Charles Dickens: His Life and Work" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Nonsense Novels by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Nonsense Novels written by Stephen Leacock and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1925 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock by : Margaret MacMillan
Download or read book Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock written by Margaret MacMillan and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humorist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves.
Book Synopsis Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Classic Reprint) by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Classic Reprint) written by Stephen Leacock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Many of my friends are under the impression that 'i write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labours of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way. The writing of solid, in structive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between. Personally I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopaedia Britannica. In regard to the present work I must disclaim at once all intention of trying to do anything so ridiculously easy as writing about a real place and real people. Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels, and everywhere the sunshine of the land of hope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Frenzied Fiction by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Frenzied Fiction written by Stephen Leacock and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Boy I Left Behind Me by : Stephen Butler Leacock
Download or read book The Boy I Left Behind Me written by Stephen Butler Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Boy I Left Behind Me" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Stephen Leacock written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Published in English.
Book Synopsis Laugh With Leacock by : Stephen Butler Leacock
Download or read book Laugh With Leacock written by Stephen Butler Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Laugh With Leacock" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Elements of Political Science by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Elements of Political Science written by Stephen Leacock and published by Boston : Houghton, Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1906 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Awful Fate Of Melpomenus Jones by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book The Awful Fate Of Melpomenus Jones written by Stephen Leacock and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Book Synopsis Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock by : Margaret MacMillan
Download or read book Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock written by Margaret MacMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, Stephen Leacock’s comic masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town made him an international star overnight. He was published in magazines and newspapers across Canada and in New York and London. Charlie Chaplin asked him for a screenplay; a young F. Scott Fitzgerald expressed his admiration. Eminent historian Margaret MacMillan argues that, while much of what Leacock satirized in small-town Canada has disappeared, his humour endures. His skewering of pretension and his self-deprecating wit entertained thousands during his heyday, even as it defined a quintessentially Canadian stance. But Leacock, MacMillan points out, was also a public intellectual, engaged with questions about government, war, and a just society. Writing with her usual brio, MacMillan has created a wonderfully insightful and affectionate portrait of a man who mattered.
Book Synopsis Too Much College, or, Education Eating Up Life by : Stephen Butler Leacock
Download or read book Too Much College, or, Education Eating Up Life written by Stephen Butler Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Too Much College, or, Education Eating Up Life" (With Kindred Essays in Education and Humour) by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels written by Stephen Leacock and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Stephen Leacock’s collection of short stories, "Winsome Winnie And Other New Nonsense Novels" (first published in 1920). These wonderful and comical tales will appeal to fans of Leacock’s work, and would make for worthy additions to any literary collection. The stories of this compendium include: “Thrown on the World”, “A Re-encounter”, “Friends in Distress”, “A Gambling Party in St. James’s Close”, “The Abduction”, “The Unknown”, “The Proposal”, “Wedded at Last”, “John and I; Or, How I Nearly Lost my Husband”, and more. Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (1869 - 1944) was a Canadian writer, humourist, and teacher. He was amongst the most widely read English-speaking authors in the world during the early-twentieth century, and is best remembered for his humourous novels. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Book Synopsis My Remarkable Uncle by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book My Remarkable Uncle written by Stephen Leacock and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 smorgasbord of mirth served up by a master of comedy, includes several essays, a short story, a political parable, and personal reflections on a dizzying array of subjects. Here, in rich abundance, are the inspired nonsense and the unerring eye for human folly that have made Stephen Leacock Canada’s most celebrated humorist.
Book Synopsis Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" by Stephen Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
