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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)

Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia)

Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Short Stories

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	01 - My Financial Career	TriciaG	00:06:04
Play 02	02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret	TriciaG	00:13:46
Play 03	03 - Boarding-house Geometry	TriciaG	00:02:21
Play 04	04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones	TriciaG	00:06:13
Play 05	05 - A Christmas Letter	TriciaG	00:02:39
Play 06	06 - How to Make a Million Dollars	TriciaG	00:08:56
Play 07	07 - How to Live to Be 200	TriciaG	00:07:49
Play 08	08 - How to Avoid Getting Married	TriciaG	00:07:23
Play 09	09 - How to Be a Doctor	TriciaG	00:09:10
Play 10	10 - The New Food	TriciaG	00:02:54
Play 11	11 - A New Pathology	TriciaG	00:08:28
Play 12	12 - The Poet Answered	TriciaG	00:02:24
Play 13	13 - The Force of Statistics	TriciaG	00:03:02
Play 14	14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me	TriciaG	00:09:24
Play 15	15 - Getting the Thread of It	TriciaG	00:07:17
Play 16	16 - Telling His Faults	TriciaG	00:02:50
Play 17	17 - Winter Pastimes	TriciaG	00:08:36
Play 18	18 - Number Fifty-Six	TriciaG	00:14:48
Play 19	19 - Aristocratic Education	TriciaG	00:04:49
Play 20	20 - The Conjurer's Revenge	TriciaG	00:05:02
Play 21	21 - Hints to Travellers	TriciaG	00:05:51
Play 22	22 - A Manual of Education	TriciaG	00:05:07
Play 23	23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas	TriciaG	00:06:48
Play 24	24 - The Life of John Smith	TriciaG	00:08:38
Play 25	25 - On Collecting Things	TriciaG	00:06:04
Play 26	26 - Society Chit-Chat	TriciaG	00:06:54
Play 27	27 - Insurance Up to Date	TriciaG	00:03:26
Play 28	28 - Borrowing a Match	TriciaG	00:03:11
Play 29	29 - A Lesson in Fiction	TriciaG	00:07:55
Play 30	30 - Helping the Armenians	TriciaG	00:02:46
Play 31	31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel	TriciaG	00:03:51
Play 32	32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan	TriciaG	00:12:16
Play 33	33 - The Passing of the Poet	TriciaG	00:12:13
Play 34	34 - Self-Made Men	TriciaG	00:06:44
Play 35	35 - A Model Dialogue	TriciaG	00:03:13
Play 36	36 - Back to the Bush	TriciaG	00:11:03
Play 37	37 - Reflections on Riding	TriciaG	00:04:26
Play 38	38 - Saloonio	TriciaG	00:06:44
Play 39	39 - Half-Hours with the Poets	TriciaG	00:15:43
Play 40	40 - A, B, and C	TriciaG	00:11:35
Play 41	41 - Acknowledgments	TriciaG	00:01:53

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