Stephen Leacock

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Stephen Leacock - Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North

This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series . This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage, focusing on Samuel Hearne, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and...

TriciaG 3 hours 19 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Literary Lapses

Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. «Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the...

TriciaG 4 hours 40 minutes

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Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

TriciaG 5 hours 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Further Foolishness

Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. «Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest...

TriciaG 5 hours 37 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

Stephen Leacock - Essays and Literary Studies

A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

TriciaG 5 hours 34 minutes

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Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels

Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels

8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away it's genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 49 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Stephen Leacock - My Discovery of England

«In the course of time a very considerable public feeling was aroused in the United States and Canada over this state of affairs. The lack of reciprocity in it seemed unfair. It was felt (or at least I felt) that the...

TriciaG 4 hours 43 minutes

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Short Stories

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Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

TriciaG 4 hours 8 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Behind the Beyond

A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast for Section 1: Narrator/Stage Directions – Tricia G Sir...

Algy Pug and 3 more 3 hours 15 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Stephen Leacock - Nonsense Novels

Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

TriciaG 3 hours 27 minutes

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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

TriciaG 3 hours 48 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Stephen Leacock - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

«Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich» is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic «Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.» Like that work, it is a...

Linda Lee Paquet and 4 more 6 hours 46 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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