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Nonsense Novels

by Stephen Leacock

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  1. 00 - Preface

    1:28

  2. 01 - Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective

    16:40

  3. 02 - 'Q.' A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural

    22:05

  4. 03 - Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry

    13:51

  5. 04 - Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen

    21:24

  6. 05 - A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft

    18:18

  7. 06 - Sorrows of a Super Soul: or, The Memoirs of Marie Mushenough

    18:49

  8. 07 - Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty

    21:40

  9. 08 - Soaked in Seaweed: or, Upset in the Ocean

    21:45

  10. 09 - Caroline's Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant

    24:18

  11. 10 - The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future

    26:57

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A detective surrounded by disguises and cryptograms receives news of a missing prince, then struggles with clues that ought to be plain. Stephen Leacock uses this inflated sense of importance to turn familiar story conventions into jokes. His 1911 collection ranges across detective fiction, chivalric romance, sentimental memoirs, a sea story and an imagined future. The chapter titles announce the literary poses that each short piece takes apart.

In another excerpt, a woman records her devotion to Otto in increasingly dramatic diary entries. She interprets his requests for money and valuables as signs of concern for their future together. The gap between her account and the practical details gives the passage its comic force. Readers interested in parody can watch Leacock make grand speeches, stock characters and solemn narrative voices collapse under ordinary facts.

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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian economist, political scientist, and, for a stretch of the early twentieth century, the most widely read humorist in the English-speaking world. He taught at McGill University in Montreal and published dozens of books, mixing gentle satire with real affection for the ordinary and the absurd.

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Pages
98
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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