Literary Lapses
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About This Book
Short, highly humorous parodies of famous works of fiction and authors' literary styles.
Chapters (61)
- LITERARY LAPSES By Stephen Leacock
- CONTENTS
- My Financial Career
- Lord Oxhead's Secret
- Boarding-House Geometry
- DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS
- POSTULATES AND PROPOSITIONS
- 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
- A New Pathology
- MEDICAL CASES
- SURGICAL CASES
- The Poet Answered
- The Force of Statistics
- Men Who have Shaved Me
- Getting the Thread of It
- Telling His Faults
- Winter Pastimes
- Number Fifty-Six
- Aristocratic Education
- The Conjurer's Revenge
- Hints to Travellers
- A Manual of Education
- I.—REMAINS OF ASTRONOMY
- II.—REMAINS OF HISTORY
- III.—REMAINS OF BOTANY.
- IV.—REMAINS OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
- Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
- The Life of John Smith
- On Collecting Things
- Society Chit-Chat
- AS IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN
- DÉJEUNER DE LUXE AT THE DE SMYTHE RESIDENCE
- DINER DE FAMEEL AT THE BOARDING-HOUSE DE MCFIGGIN
- DELIGHTFUL EVENING AT THE RESIDENCE OF MR. ALONZO ROBINSON
- Insurance up to Date
- Borrowing a Match
- A Lesson in Fiction
- Helping the Armenians
- A Study in Still Life.—The Country Hotel
- An Experiment With Policeman Hogan
- The Passing of the Poet
- Self-made Men
- A Model Dialogue
- Back to the Bush
- Reflections on Riding
- Saloonio
- Half-hours with the Poets
- I.—MR. WORDSWORTH AND THE LITTLE COTTAGE GIRL.
- II:—HOW TENNYSON KILLED THE MAY QUEEN
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- III.—OLD MR. LONGFELLOW ON BOARD THE HESPERUS.
- A, B, and C
- Acknowledgments
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