Stephen Leacock

Titles in Fiction category:

• Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich    

  The Mausoleum Club stands on the quietest corner of the best residential street in the City. It is a Grecian building of white stone. About it are great elm trees with birds--the most expensive kind of birds--singing in the branches.

• Hohenzollerns in America, The

  The proper punishment for the Hohenzollerns, and the Hapsburgs, and the Mecklenburgs, and the Muckendorfs, and all such puppets and princelings, is that they should be made to work; and not made to work in the glittering and glorious sense, as generals and chiefs of staff, and legislator ...

• Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy

  Readers are requested to note that this novel has taken our special prize of a cheque for a thousand guineas. This alone guarantees for all intelligent readers a palpitating interest in every line of it. Among the thousands of MSS. which reached us--many of them coming in carts early in the mor ...

• Nonsense Novels    

  The author of this book offers it to the public without apology. The reviewers of his previous work of this character have presumed, on inductive grounds, that he must be a young man from the most westerly part of the Western States, to whom many things might be pardoned as due to the e ...

• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town    

  I know no way in which a writer may more fittingly introduce his work to the public than by giving a brief account of who and what he is. By this means some of the blame for what he has done is very properly shifted to the extenuating circumstances of his life.

Titles in Non-Fiction category:

• My Discovery of England    

  Introduction of Mr. Stephen Leacock
  Given by Sir Owen Seaman
  on the Occasion of His First
  Lecture in London