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Samples of Stephen Leacock's Work


"My Financial Career" (with audio)
"Boarding-house Geometry"
"The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones"
"A, B, and C"
All four selections are from Literary Lapses; A Book of Sketches. (Montreal: Gazette Printing Company, 1910)

"Preface"

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

"The New Education"
From Frenzied Fiction. (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, 1918)

"How to Borrow Money"

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

"Further Progress in Specialization"
From The Iron Man and the Tin Woman, With Other Such Futurities: A Book of Little (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929)

"The Devil and the Deep Sea"

From Essays and Literary Studies. (New York: John Lane Company; London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; Toronto, S.B. Gundy, 1916)


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