Stephen Leacock
Critique • Works
Born
1869, Swanmore, Hampshire, England,
Died
1944, Toronto, Canada
Publications
Stories, satire, biography, memoirs, economics, political science
Writing languages
English
Literature
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Stories
• "My Financial Career" (1910)
• "The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias" (1912)
Story Collections
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Canadian Literature
• "My Financial Career" (1910)
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
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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