Author:Stephen Butler Leacock

Stephen Butler Leacock
(1869–1944)

Stephen Butler Leacock

Works

Fiction

• Literary Lapses (1910)
  • My Financial Career
  • Lord Oxhead's Secret
  • Boarding-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
  • A New Pathology
  • 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
  • Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
  • The Life of John Smith
  • On Collecting Things
  • Society Chit-Chat
  • 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

    III. Old Mr. Longfellow on Board the Hesperus

  • A, B, and C

• 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
  • 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'"

• "My Interviewer" (1923, Harper's Magazine)
• "A Manual of the New Mentality" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
• "The Secrets of Success" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
• "The Human Body—It's Care and Prevention" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
• "Business As I See It" (1924, Harper's Magazine)
• "The Personal Habits and Sayings of the Emperor Napoleon" (1924, Harper's Magazine)

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, 1915
• The Mariner of St. Malo: a chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier, 1914
• 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)