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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... read more
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First Sentence edit
When I go into a bank I get rattled.
Table of Contents edit
"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
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen Leacock (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Davies, Robertson
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Leacock, Stephen
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Canadian
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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