Delphi Complete Works of Stephen Leacock (Illustrated)

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By 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)

  • 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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