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Subjects: SatireNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Not a great gift for your CEO, unless they self depricate well.
Great insight into the rich, powerful, educated and vain that will make you laugh at themand at the same time understand them better and see your own tendencies in that direction on occasion. This should be a must read for anyone that is employed by a country club or works in direct service to the elite. It might help the world if all our educators, CEOs and politicians were forced to read it as well. As Vanity, Superiority and Greed never seem to leave us this book will be a treasure to keep handy and pass down from one generation to the next. If you can't beat them, might as well laugh at them. ... Read more

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Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) is one of Canada's most respected and beloved writers. A prolific author of prodigious talent, he had an international following during his career. Although he was best known as a humorist, he was also a professor of political economy, an historian, a social critic and propagandist, a writer of doggerel, and a platform entertainer. A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock employs the protocols of descriptive bibliography to record all of Leacock's published work from his first known venture into print in 1887 until the cut-off date of 1998.

One of the bibliography's major strengths is an emphasis on publishing history. Organized into 10 sections, the bibliography describes all editions and issues; Leacock's contributions to books; his serial publications (in newspapers and magazines); reports of his speeches and lectures; lectures given; interviews; authorized adaptations; translations; recordings by Leacock; Braille, talking books and films; encyclopedia articles; and contributions in serial articles and books by others. In addition, there is a section for "Lost Leads," see-references, and a comprehensive index (author, title, and subject). A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock reveals the complexity and scope of Leacock's enormous canon. Based on an in-depth examination of texts and archival documents, this bibliography is a research tool in ... Read more

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This new book is a pictorial treasure, tracing the life of Canada's first and foremost man of letters, a legendary teacher and a world-renowned humorist. More than two hundred photographs are reproduced, drawn from the archives of the Stephen Leacock Museum, housed in the Leacock estate, "The Old Brewery Bay" in Orillia. Most are published for the first time. In this exclusive collection, we follow Stephen Leacock from a Lake Simcoe farm to Upper Canada College, to McGill University, and global acclaim that followed the publication of his first books of humour before World War I. Many are intimate family portraits; many are set at The Old Brewery Bay, the "farm" he established in 1908 on the shores of Lake Couchiching, where the greats of American and Canadian literary and academic life gathered and celebrated over the next thirty-five years. ... Read more

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Publisher: Toronto : Ryerson PressNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The reputation of Stephen Leacock as Canada.s best-loved humorist started with the publication of his Literary Lapses in 1910. Reviewers raved about the book, and by the time his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town appeared in 1912, Leacock was being hailed as the Canadian Mark Twain and compared toCharlie Chaplin. Despite Leacock.s early hardships,what is certain is that the story of this Canadianimmigrant is remarkable. A boy who loved to read went on to write more than 60 books. A boy who loved to laugh went on to world celebrity for his gift for making other people laugh. A boy who came to Canada pining for his birthplace went on to choose Canada as his place in the world. ... Read more

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As the foremost literary humorist of his day, Stephen Leacock enjoyed a huge international success, and his comic works (especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) still have the power to delight today's readers. But Leacock was also a professor of political science and economics; he produced 61 works in various fields; he wrote more than 90 scholarly articles. In Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia, James Doyle explores the life of this prominent and prolific writer. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Toronto : S. B. Gundy; Publication date: 1916; Subjects: Canadian wit and humor; ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1922.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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1930. An anthology of the best works of Leacock, a Canadian humorist and economist, who published a number of serious works in his field as well as in history and biography, but is best known for his collections of satirical essays and short stories. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more