Author:Stephen Leacock

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Stephen Leacock (1869–1944)

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Works

• Literary Lapses (1910)
  • 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
  • Back to the Bush
  • Reflections on Riding
  • Saloonio
  • Half-Hours with the Poets--

    I. Mr. Wordsworth and the Little Cottage Girl

    II. How Tennyson Killed the May Queen

    III. Old Mr. Longfellow on Board the Hesperus

  • A, B, and C

• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, 1912
• The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada, 1915
• Our Compressed Old English Novel, 1916
• Frenzied Fiction (1919)
  • Merry Christmas
  • The Errors of Santa Claus

• The Garden of Folly (1924)
  • The Secrets of Success
  • The Human Mind Up to Date
  • The Human Body: Its Care and Prevention
  • The Perfect Salesman
  • Romances of Business
  • The Perfect Lover's Guide
  • The Progress of Human Knowledge
  • Glimpses of the Future in America
  • My Unposted Correspondence
  • Letters to the New Rulers of the World

Some or all works by this author are now in the public domain because it originates from Canada and its term of copyright has expired. The author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in Canada because, according to Canadian copyright law, all private copyrights expire fifty years after the year marking the death of the author. Works by this author also in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1944, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), and they were first published before 1989 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities (renewal and/or copyright notice) and they were in the public domain in their home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries). The author died in 1944, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.