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Moonbeams From The Larger Lunacy

Moonbeams From The Larger Lunacy

by Stephen Leacock

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Author
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944
Title
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Credits
Gardner Buchanan with help from the distributed proofers system created by Charles Franks
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Canadian wit and humor
Category
Text
eBook-No.
4064
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4064
Release Date
May 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.MOONBEAMS FROM THE LARGER LUNACY
  2. 2.By Stephen Leacock
  3. 3.PREFACE — STEPHEN LEACOCK.
  4. 4.I.—SPOOF. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Fascinating! Perplexing!
  5. 5.CHAPTER I
  6. 6.CHAPTER II
  7. 7.CHAPTER III — . . . . . . . — . . . . . . . — . . . . . . .
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV
  9. 9.II.—THE READING PUBLIC. A BOOK STORE STUDY
  10. 10.III.—AFTERNOON ADVENTURES AT MY CLUB
  11. 11.1.—The Anecdotes of Dr. So and So
  12. 12.2.—The Shattered Health of Mr. Podge
  13. 13.3.—The Amazing Travels of Mr. Yarner
  14. 14.4.—The Spiritual Outlook of Mr. Doomer
  15. 15.5.—The Reminiscences of Mr. Apricot
  16. 16.6.—The Last Man out of Europe
  17. 17.7.—The War Mania of Mr. Jinks and Mr. Blinks
  18. 18.8.—The Ground Floor
  19. 19.9.—The Hallucination of Mr. Butt
  20. 20.IV-RAM SPUDD THE NEW WORLD SINGER. — Is He Divinely Inspired? Or Is He Not? At Any Rate We Discovered Him.
  21. 21.V.—ARISTOCRATIC ANECDOTES OR LITTLE STORIES OF GREAT — PEOPLE — ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF STRATHYTHAN — ANECDOTE OF LORD KITCHENER — NEW LIGHT ON THE LIFE OF CAVOUR — TENDERNESS OF A QUEEN
  22. 22.VI.—EDUCATION MADE AGREEABLE OR THE DIVERSIONS OF A — PROFESSOR
  23. 23.VII.—AN EVERY-DAY EXPERIENCE
  24. 24.VIII—TRUTHFUL ORATORY — or What Our Speakers Ought to Say — I — II — III
  25. 25.IX.—OUR LITERARY BUREAU — JANUARY INSTALMENT — FEBRUARY INSTALMENT — MARCH INSTALMENT — APRIL INSTALMENT — MAY INSTALMENT — JUNE INSTALMENT — JULY INSTALMENT — AUGUST INSTALMENT — SEPTEMBER INSTALMENT — OCTOBER INSTALMENT — NOVEMBER INSTALMENT — DECEMBER INSTALMENT — CONCLUDING NOTE
  26. 26.X.—SPEEDING UP BUSINESS
  27. 27.XI.—WHO IS ALSO WHO — A Companion Volume to Who’s Who
  28. 28.XII.—PASSIONATE PARAGRAPHS
  29. 29.XIII.—WEEJEE THE PET DOG — An Idyll of the Summer
  30. 30.XIV.—SIDELIGHTS ON THE SUPERMEN — An Interview with General Bernhardi
  31. 31.XV.—THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
  32. 32.XVI—THE FIRST NEWSPAPER — A Sort of Allegory
  33. 33.XVII—IN THE GOOD TIME AFTER THE WAR — HOUSE OF COMMONS REPORT

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