Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses
Author: Stephen Leacock
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Total Pages: 256
Release: 1918
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My financial career.-- Lord Oxhead's secret.-- Boarding-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.-- A new pathology.-- The poet answered.-- The force of statistics.-- Men who have shaved me.-- Getting the thread of it.-- Telling his faults.-- Winter pastimes.-- Number fifty-six.--Aristocratic education.-- The conjurer's revenge.-- Hints to travellers.-- A manual of education.-- Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas.-- The life of John Smith.--On collecting things.-- Society chit-chat.-- Insurance up to-date.-- Borrowing a match.-- A lesson in fiction.-- Helping the Armenians.-- A study in still life, the country hotel.-- An experiment with Policeman Hogan.-- The passing of the poet.-- Self-made men.-- A model dialogue.-- Bach to the bush.--Reflections on riding.-- Saloonio.-- Half-hours with the poets: Mr. Wordsworth and the cottage girl; How Tennyson killed the May queen; Old Mr. Longfellow on board the Hesperus. --A, B, and C.


Literary Lapses
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Stephen Leacock
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1918 - Publisher:

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My financial career.-- Lord Oxhead's secret.-- Boarding-house geometry.-- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones.-- A Christmas letter.-- How to make a million doll
Literary Lapses
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Stephen Leacock
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-01 - Publisher: The Floating Press

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Formally trained as a political scientist and economist, Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock produced dozens of books of hilarious and satirical stories, essays,
Literary Lapses
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Stephen Leacock
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-26 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Literary Lapses was Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock’s first collection of comic writings, and includes such side-splitting gems as “My Financial Career,�
Literary Lapses
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Stephen Leacock
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-24 - Publisher: New Canadian Library

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The humour, irony, and wit of Stephen Leacock have never been shown to better advantage than in Literary Lapses, his first collection of comic writings. Within
Literary Lapses
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Stephen Leacock
Categories: Canadian wit and humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1910 - Publisher: Gazette Printing Company

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Collection of Leacock's comic writings. Includes such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the young m