Author:Stephen Butler Leacock
Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. Known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies
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Works[edit]
- 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
- My Financial Career
- Nonsense Novels, 1912?
- 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) (transcription project)
- Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels (1920)
- The Garden of Folly (1924)
Works from magazines[edit]
- My Tailor (1916, Century)
- Our "Shorter Still Stories" (1916, Century)
- Homer and Humbug (1913, Century) (n-f)
- New Nonsense Novels (1920, Harper's) (sl; in book form as Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels, 1920)
- "The Drama as I See It" (1923, Harper's Magazine)
- "'Cast Up By the Sea'"
- "'The Soul Call'"
- "'Dead Men's Gold'"
- "'The Greek Drama'"
- "Masterpieces of Other Nations"
- "'The Historical Drama'"
- "My Interviewer" (1923, Harper's Magazine)
- "A Manual of the New Mentality" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
- "The Secrets of Success" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
- "The Human Body—It's Care and Prevention" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
- "Business As I See It" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
- "The Personal Habits and Sayings of the Emperor Napoleon" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. These works may 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.
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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).
This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. These works may 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.
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