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Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses

by Stephen Leacock

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Author
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Humorous stories, Canadian
Category
Text
eBook-No.
6340
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6340
Release Date
June 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.LITERARY LAPSES By Stephen Leacock
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.My Financial Career
  5. 5.Lord Oxhead's Secret
  6. 6.Boarding-House Geometry — DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS — POSTULATES AND PROPOSITIONS
  7. 7.The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
  8. 8.A Christmas Letter
  9. 9.How to Make a Million Dollars
  10. 10.How to Live to be 200
  11. 11.How to Avoid Getting Married
  12. 12.How to be a Doctor
  13. 13.The New Food
  14. 14.A New Pathology — MEDICAL CASES — SURGICAL CASES
  15. 15.The Poet Answered
  16. 16.The Force of Statistics
  17. 17.Men Who have Shaved Me
  18. 18.Getting the Thread of It
  19. 19.Telling His Faults
  20. 20.Winter Pastimes
  21. 21.Number Fifty-Six
  22. 22.Aristocratic Education
  23. 23.The Conjurer's Revenge
  24. 24.Hints to Travellers
  25. 25.A Manual of Education — I.—REMAINS OF ASTRONOMY — II.—REMAINS OF HISTORY — III.—REMAINS OF BOTANY. — IV.—REMAINS OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
  26. 26.Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
  27. 27.The Life of John Smith
  28. 28.On Collecting Things
  29. 29.Society Chit-Chat — AS IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN — DÉJEUNER DE LUXE AT THE DE SMYTHE RESIDENCE — DINER DE FAMEEL AT THE BOARDING-HOUSE DE MCFIGGIN — DELIGHTFUL EVENING AT THE RESIDENCE OF MR. ALONZO ROBINSON
  30. 30.Insurance up to Date
  31. 31.Borrowing a Match
  32. 32.A Lesson in Fiction
  33. 33.Helping the Armenians
  34. 34.A Study in Still Life.—The Country Hotel
  35. 35.An Experiment With Policeman Hogan
  36. 36.The Passing of the Poet
  37. 37.Self-made Men
  38. 38.A Model Dialogue
  39. 39.Back to the Bush
  40. 40.Reflections on Riding
  41. 41.Saloonio
  42. 42.Half-hours with the Poets — I.—MR. WORDSWORTH AND THE LITTLE COTTAGE GIRL. — II:—HOW TENNYSON KILLED THE MAY QUEEN — PART I — PART II — PART III — III.—OLD MR. LONGFELLOW ON BOARD THE HESPERUS.
  43. 43.A, B, and C
  44. 44.Acknowledgments

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