Author:Stephen Butler Leacock

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Stephen Butler Leacock
(1869–1944)
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Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. Known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies
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Stephen Butler Leacock

Works

Fiction

  • Nonsense Novels, 1912?
  • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, 1912
  • Behind the Beyond, 1913
  • Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, 1914
  • Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, 1915
  • Our Compressed Old English Novel, 1916
  • Further Foolishness, 1916
  • The Hohenzollerns in America, 1919
  • Frenzied Fiction (1919) (transcription project)
  • Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels (1920)
  • College Days, 1923
  • Over the Footlights, 1923
  • The Garden of Folly, 1924 IA
    • The Secrets of Success
    • The Human Mind Up to Date
    • The Human Body: Its Care and Prevention
    • The Perfect Salesman
    • Romances of Business
    • The Perfect Lover's Guide
    • The Progress of Human Knowledge
    • Glimpses of the Future in America
    • My Unposted Correspondence
    • Letters to the New Rulers of the World
  • Winnowed Wisdom, 1926
  • Short Circuits, 1928

Works from magazines

  • My Tailor (1916, Century)
  • Our "Shorter Still Stories" (1916, Century)
  • Homer and Humbug (1913, Century) (n-f)
  • New Nonsense Novels (1920, Harper's) (sl; in book form as Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels, 1920)
  • "The Drama as I See It" (1923, Harper's Magazine)
  1. "'Cast Up By the Sea'"
  2. "'The Soul Call'"
  3. "'Dead Men's Gold'"
  4. "'The Greek Drama'"
  5. "Masterpieces of Other Nations"
  6. "'The Historical Drama'"

Non-fiction

  • Elements of Political Science, 1906
  • Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government, 1907
  • Practical Political Economy, 1910
  • Adventurers of the Far North, 1914
  • The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and the coming of the White Man, 1915 (transcription project)
  • The Mariner of St. Malo: a chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier, 1914 (transcription project)
  • The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice, 1920
  • My Discovery of England, 1922
  • Mackenzie, Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks, 1926
  • Economic Prosperity in the British Empire, 1930
  • The Economic Prosperity of the British Empire, 1931
  • Humour: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples, 1935
  • The Greatest Pages of American Humor, 1936
  • Humour and Humanity, 1937
  • Here Are My Lectures, 1937
  • My Discovery of the West, 1937
  • Our British Empire, 1940
  • Canada: The Foundations of Its Future, 1941
  • Our Heritage of Liberty, 1942
  • Montreal: Seaport and City, 1942
  • Canada and the Sea, 1944
  • How to Write, 1944
  • While There Is Time, 1944
  • My Lost Dollar

Biography

  • Mark Twain, 1932
  • Charles Dickens: His Life and Work, 1933

Autobiography

  • The Boy I Left Behind Me (1946)


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), and they were first published before 1989 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities (renewal and/or copyright notice) and they were in the public domain in their home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).

This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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