Delphi Complete Works of Stephen Leacock (Illustrated)

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)

* 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

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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

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