The Bodley Head Leacock / edited and introduced by J.B. Priestley
1975, Sixth Impression. London : Bodley Head. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to end papers. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #457994
ISBN: 0370005252
Physical description; vii, 464 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; A selection of Leacock's writings. Contents; Stephen Leacock: a personal note / by Barbara Nimmo -- I. My financial career; Boarding-house geometry -- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones -- A,B, and C from literary lapses 1910 -- 2. Sorrows of a super soul; The man in asbestos, from Nonsense novels, 1911 -- 3. Homer and humbug, from Behind the beyond, 1913 -- 4. Reading public, from Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, 1916 -- 5. Are the rich happy, from Further foolishness, 1917 -- 6. Sunshine sketches of a little town, 1912; Hostelry of Mr. Smith -- Marine excursions of the Knights of Pythias -- The Mariposa Bank mystery -- Candidacy of Mr. Smith -- 7. Impressions of London; Oxford as I see it -- We have with us to-night, from My discovery of England, 1922 -- 8. How to introduce two people to one another, from The Hohenzollerns in America, 1919 -- 9. Cast up by the sea; Roughing it in the Bush -- L'envoi: to a faded actor, from Over the footlights, 1923 -- 10. Further progress in specialization; Eddie the bar-tender, from The Iron Man and the Tin Woman, 1929 -- 11. The dry Pickwick; The perfect optimist -- Ho for Happiness, from The dry Pickwick, 1932 -- 12. Our summer convention -- At the Ladies culture club, from Winnowed wisdom, 1926 -- 13. Old Junk and new money; How to borrow money, Save me from my friends, The old men's page, from Short circuits, 1928 -- 14. My Victorian girlhood -- Overworking the alphabet, from Model memoirs, 1939 -- 15. Fiction and reality, from Essays and literary studies, 1916 -- 16. The new education, from Frenzied fiction, 1918 -- 17. Bass fishing on Lake Simcoe, from Too much college, 1940 -- 18. Andrew Macphail, from The Boy I left behind me, 1947 -- 19. My remarkable uncle; The transit of venus, from My remarkable Uncle, 1942 -- 20. Arcadian adventures with the idle rich, 1914; The Yahi-Bahi Oriental society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown -- The rival churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph -- The ministrations of the Reverend uttermust dumfarthing -- The great fight for clean government.
Subjects; Leacock, Stephen 1869-1944 Criticism and interpretation. Canadian wit and humor. English wit and humor. Canadian literature 20th century. English essays 20th century. Satire.
Price: €12.95