Stephen Leacock

Critique • Works

Biographical details △

Born
1869, Swanmore, Hampshire, England,

Died
1944, Toronto, Canada

Publications
Stories, satire, biography, memoirs, economics, political science

Writing languages
English

Greatest lists △

Related pages △

My Financial Career

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

Works published in book form

Elements of Political Science, nonfiction, 1906

Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government, nonfiction, 1907

Literary Lapses, story collection, 1910

including "My Financial Career", "Lord Oxford's Secret", "Borading-House Geometry", "The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones", "A christmas Letter", "How to Make a Million Dollars", "How to Live to Be 200", "How to Avoid Getting Married", "How to Be a Doctor", "The New Food",...

Nonsense Novels, story collection, 1911

"Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective", "'Q.A.'Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural", "Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry", "Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen", "A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft", "Sorrows of a Super Soul: or, The Memoirs of Marie Mushenough", "Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty", "Soaked in Seaweed: or, Upset in the Ocean (An Old-fashioned Sea Story.)", "Caroline's Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant", "The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future"

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, story collection, 1912

"The Hostelry of Mr. Smith", "The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe", "The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias", "The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone", "The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa", "The Beacon on the Hill", "The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin", "The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin", "The Mariposa Bank Mystery", "The Great Election in Missinaba County", "The Candidacy of Mr. Smith", "L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa"

Behind the Beyond, story collection, 1913

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, story collection, 1914

"A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe", "The Wizard of Finance", "The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson", "The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown", "The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins", "The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph", "TThe Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing", "The Great Fight for Clean Government"

Adventurers of the Far North, nonfiction, 1914

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, story collection, 1915

Further Foolishness, story collection, 1916

Essays and Literary Studies, essay collection, 1916

Frenzied Fiction, story collection, 1918

"My Revelations as a Spy", "Father Knickerbocker: A Fantasy", "The Prophet in Our Midst", "Personal Adventures in the Spirit World", "The Sorrows of a Summer Guest", "To Nature and Back Again", "The Cave-Man as He Is", "Ideal Interviews", "The New Education", "The Errors of Santa Claus", "Lost in New York", "This Strenuous Age", "The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing", "Back from the Land", "The Perplexity Column as Done by the Jaded Journalist", "Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life", "In Dry Toronto", "Merry Christmas"

The Hohenzollerns in America, with the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities, 1919

Winsome Winnie, story collection, 1920

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice, nonfiction, 1920

My Discovery of England , story collection, 1922

College Days, story collection, 1923

Over the Footlights, story collection, 1923

The Garden of Folly, story collection, 1924

Winnowed Wisdom, story collection, 1926

Short Circuits, story collection, 1928

Short Circuits, story collection, 1929

Laugh with Leacock, story collection, 1930

Mark Twain, biography, 1932