LITERARY LAPSES: 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 (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of LITERARY LAPSES: 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 Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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 its pages are such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the young man who dies because he cannot tell a lie; the astonishing tale of the baby who ate thirteen Christmas dinners, and many other tales that have become part of the world's comic literature. When Literary Lapses first appeared in 1910, it was an instant critical and popular success. Within a few years of its publication, Leacock was acknowledged as the English-speaking world’s most beloved humourist.

Shelfari edited the contributors of LITERARY LAPSES: 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 Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Stephen Leacock: (Primary Author)