Literary Lapses
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01 - My Financial Career
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02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret
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03 - Boarding-house Geometry
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04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
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05 - A Christmas Letter
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06 - How to Make a Million Dollars
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07 - How to Live to Be 200
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08 - How to Avoid Getting Married
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09 - How to Be a Doctor
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10 - The New Food
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11 - A New Pathology
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12 - The Poet Answered
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13 - The Force of Statistics
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14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me
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15 - Getting the Thread of It
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16 - Telling His Faults
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17 - Winter Pastimes
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18 - Number Fifty-Six
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19 - Aristocratic Education
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20 - The Conjurer's Revenge
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21 - Hints to Travellers
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22 - A Manual of Education
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23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
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24 - The Life of John Smith
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25 - On Collecting Things
6:04 -
26 - Society Chit-Chat
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27 - Insurance Up to Date
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28 - Borrowing a Match
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29 - A Lesson in Fiction
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30 - Helping the Armenians
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31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel
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32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan
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33 - The Passing of the Poet
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34 - Self-Made Men
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35 - A Model Dialogue
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36 - Back to the Bush
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37 - Reflections on Riding
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38 - Saloonio
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39 - Half-Hours with the Poets
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40 - A, B, and C
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41 - Acknowledgments
1:53
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A nervous visit to the bank turns an ordinary deposit into a comedy of embarrassment in Stephen Leacock's opening sketch. The narrator's solemn requests and awkward movements make a small transaction seem like a matter of immense consequence. Elsewhere, Lord Oxhead faces financial trouble amid family portraits and grand claims of ancestry, while his daughter brings news of an engagement. Published in 1910, this collection uses short stories and mock advice to expose the absurdity of everyday habits and social pretensions.
Leacock also turns railway travel and education into subjects for elaborate nonsense. His imaginary pocket manual reduces years of study to a handful of comically scrambled lessons in astronomy and history. Readers interested in verbal comedy will find exaggerated logic, confident misstatements and sudden changes of scale, all built around familiar encounters with institutions, manners and supposed expertise.
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- Stephen Leacock
- Pages
- 157
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
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