Literary Lapses

by Stephen Leacock

General Fiction Humorous Fiction Short Stories

41 chapters4h 40mEnglish1910

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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)

101 - My Financial Career

364

202 - Lord Oxhead's Secret

826

303 - Boarding-house Geometry

141

404 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones

373

505 - A Christmas Letter

159

606 - How to Make a Million Dollars

536

707 - How to Live to Be 200

469

808 - How to Avoid Getting Married

443

909 - How to Be a Doctor

550

1010 - The New Food

174

1111 - A New Pathology

508

1212 - The Poet Answered

144

1313 - The Force of Statistics

182

1414 - Men Who Have Shaved Me

564

1515 - Getting the Thread of It

437

1616 - Telling His Faults

170

1717 - Winter Pastimes

516

1818 - Number Fifty-Six

888

1919 - Aristocratic Education

289

2020 - The Conjurer's Revenge

302

2121 - Hints to Travellers

351

2222 - A Manual of Education

307

2323 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas

408

2424 - The Life of John Smith

518

2525 - On Collecting Things

364

2626 - Society Chit-Chat

414

2727 - Insurance Up to Date

206

2828 - Borrowing a Match

191

2929 - A Lesson in Fiction

475

3030 - Helping the Armenians

166

3131 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel

231

3232 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan

736

3333 - The Passing of the Poet

733

3434 - Self-Made Men

404

3535 - A Model Dialogue

193

3636 - Back to the Bush

663

3737 - Reflections on Riding

266

3838 - Saloonio

404

3939 - Half-Hours with the Poets

943

4040 - A, B, and C

695

4141 - Acknowledgments

113

Literary Lapses

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