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Stephen Leacock

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Born
1869, Swanmore, Hampshire, England,

Died
1944, Toronto, Canada

Publications
Stories, satire, biography, memoirs, economics, political science

Writing languages
English

First appearance of works in book form

1906

Elements of Political Science Nonfiction

1907

Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government Nonfiction

1910

Literary Lapses Forty stories

including "My Financial Career", "Lord Oxford's Secret", "Borading-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",...

1911

Nonsense Novels Ten stories

"Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective", "'Q.A.'Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural", "Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry", "Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen", "A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft", "Sorrows of a Super Soul: or, The Memoirs of Marie Mushenough", "Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty", "Soaked in Seaweed: or, Upset in the Ocean (An Old-fashioned Sea Story.)", "Caroline's Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant", "The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future"

1912

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Sequence of twelve stories

"The Hostelry of Mr. Smith", "The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe", "The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias", "The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone", "The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa", "The Beacon on the Hill", "The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin", "The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin", "The Mariposa Bank Mystery", "The Great Election in Missinaba County", "The Candidacy of Mr. Smith", "L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa"

1913

Behind the Beyond Stories

1914

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Sequence of eight stories

"A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe", "The Wizard of Finance", "The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson", "The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown", "The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins", "The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph", "TThe Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing", "The Great Fight for Clean Government"

Adventurers of the Far North Nonfiction

1915

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stories

1916

Further Foolishness Stories

Essays and Literary Studies Essays

1918

Frenzied Fiction Eighteen stories

"My Revelations as a Spy", "Father Knickerbocker: A Fantasy", "The Prophet in Our Midst", "Personal Adventures in the Spirit World", "The Sorrows of a Summer Guest", "To Nature and Back Again", "The Cave-Man as He Is", "Ideal Interviews", "The New Education", "The Errors of Santa Claus", "Lost in New York", "This Strenuous Age", "The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing", "Back from the Land", "The Perplexity Column as Done by the Jaded Journalist", "Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life", "In Dry Toronto", "Merry Christmas"

1919

The Hohenzollerns in America, with the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities Stories

1920

Winsome Winnie Stories

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Nonfiction

1922

My Discovery of England Stories

1923

College Days Stories

Over the Footlights Stories

1924

The Garden of Folly Stories

1926

Winnowed Wisdom Stories

1928

Short Circuits Stories

1929

Short Circuits Stories

1930

Laugh With Leacock Stories

1932

Mark Twain Biography

The Dry Pickwick Stories

Afternoons in Utopia Stories

1933

Charles Dickens: His Life and Work Biography

1935

Humour: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples Nonfiction

1936

Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill Stories

The Greatest Pages of American Humor Nonfiction

1937

Humour and Humanity Nonfiction

Here Are My Lectures Lectures

1938

Model Memoirs Stories

1939

Too Much College Stories

1940

Stephen Leacock's Laugh Parade: A new collection of the wit and humor of Stephen Leacock Stories

1942

My Remarkable Uncle Stories

1943

Happy Stories Stories

1945

Last Leaves Stories

1946

The Boy I Left Behind Me Memoir

The Leacock Roundabout: A Treasury of the Best Works of Stephen Leacock Stories

 

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