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Chronology of Writings

For a brief chronology of Stephen Leacock's writings see the list below. For a more thorough compilation of Leacock's writings see Gerhard R. Lomar's book Stephen Leacock: A Check-List and Index of His Writings (Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1954).

1906
Elements of Political Science (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company)

1907
Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hinks: Responsible Government (Toronto: Morang & Company)

1910
Literary Lapses (Montreal: Gazette Printing Company)

1911
Nonsense Novels (London: John Lane)

1912
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head)

1913
Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge (London: John Lane)

1914
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (London: John Lane) Adventures of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Company)
The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and the Coming of the White Man (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Company)
The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Company)

1915
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (New York: John Lane Company) "Q": A Farce in One Act [with Basil Macdonald] (New York: S. French)

1916
Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day (New York: John Lane Company)
Essays and Literary Studies (New York: John Lane Company)

1918
Frenzied Fiction (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head)

1919
The Hohenzollerns in America: with the Bolsheviks in Berlin, and Other Impossibilities (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head)

1920
Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels (Toronto: S.B. Gundy)
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (New York: John Lane Company)

1922
My Discovery of England (London: John Lane)

1923
College Days (New York: Dodd, Mead & Companyt)
Over the Footlights (Toronto: S.B. Gundy)

1924
The Garden of Folly (Toronto: S.B. Gundy)

1926
Winnowed Wisdom: A New Book of Humour (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
Mackenzie, Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks (London & Toronto: Oxford University Press)

1928
Short Circuits (Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada)

1929
The Iron Man and the Tin Woman, with Other Such Futurities (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)

1930
Economic Prosperity in the British Empire (Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada)

1931
Wet Wit and Dry Humour: Distilled from the Pages of Stephen Leacock (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)

1932
The Dry Pickwick and Other Incongruties (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head)
Afternoons in Utopia: Tales of the New Time (Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada)
Mark Twain (London: Peter Davies)

1933
Charles Dickens: His Life and Work (London: Peter Davies)

1934
Lincoln Frees the Slaves (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons)
The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (New York: Liveright Publishing)

1935
Humour: Its Theory and Technique (London: Lane)

1936
Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
Funny Pieces: A Book of Random Sketches (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
The Greatest Pages of American Humor (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company)

1937
Here Are My Lectures (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
Humour and Humanity: An Introduction to the Study of Humour (London: Thornton Butterworth)
My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of the East and West in Canada (Toronto: Thomas Allen)

1938
Model Memoirs, and Other Sketches from Simple to Serious (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)

1939
Too Much College, or Education Eating Up Life (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)

1940
The British Empire: Its Structure, Its History, Its Strength (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)

1941
Canada: The Foundations of Its Future (Montreal: Gazette Printing Company)

1942
My Remarkeable Uncle, and Other Sketches (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
Our Heritage of Liberty: Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis: A Book for War Time (London: John Lane)
Montreal: Seaport and City (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company)

1943
Happy Stories, Just to Laugh At (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
How to Write (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)

1944
Canada and the Sea (Montreal: Alvah M. Beatty)

1945
Last Leaves (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart)
The Case against Social Catastrophe (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company)

1946
The Boy I Left Behind Me (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company)

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