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by Stephen LEACOCK (1869 - 1944)

Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia)


01 - My Financial Career

02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret

03 - Boarding-house Geometry

04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones

05 - A Christmas Letter

06 - How to Make a Million Dollars

07 - How to Live to Be 200

08 - How to Avoid Getting Married

09 - How to Be a Doctor

10 - The New Food

11 - A New Pathology

12 - The Poet Answered

13 - The Force of Statistics

14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me

15 - Getting the Thread of It

16 - Telling His Faults

17 - Winter Pastimes

18 - Number Fifty-Six

19 - Aristocratic Education

20 - The Conjurer's Revenge

21 - Hints to Travellers

22 - A Manual of Education

23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas

24 - The Life of John Smith

25 - On Collecting Things

26 - Society Chit-Chat

27 - Insurance Up to Date

28 - Borrowing a Match

29 - A Lesson in Fiction

30 - Helping the Armenians

31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel

32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan

33 - The Passing of the Poet

34 - Self-Made Men

35 - A Model Dialogue

36 - Back to the Bush

37 - Reflections on Riding

38 - Saloonio

39 - Half-Hours with the Poets

40 - A, B, and C

41 - Acknowledgments