Humor Leacock, Stephen: Northern Light (collected works). v1. 17 Apr 2017

[GrannyGrump]

NORTHERN LIGHT
A Collection of the Humorous Writings of
Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944)
With a Bibliography and Index of Story Titles

Contents first published 1895 ~ 1946.
The text of this book is in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life+70” or less.

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Stephen Leacock was a Canadian educator, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between 1911 and 1925 he was so well-known as the world’s greatest humorist that it was said more people had heard of Stephen Leacock than had heard of Canada.

Perhaps his most famous books were “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town” and “Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich”, two of his many books of humor. He also wrote non-fiction, including books on political science, economics, history, literary criticism, and biographies of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

This omnibus, comprised of 25 books, brings you more than 550 stories, essays, and poems from the talented pen of “...Leacock the essentially Canadian humorist, dry and droll, half-clown, half-satirist, whose irony reflects no anger, whose wit is sharp but leaves no sting.” (—J. B. Priestley, Introduction to “The Bodley Head Leacock”.)

Book Titles:
Literary Lapses
Nonsense Novels
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Behind the Beyond
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Further Foolishness
Frenzied Fiction
The Hohenzollerns in America
Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels
My Discovery of England
College Days
Over the Footlights
The Garden of Folly
Winnowed Wisdom
Short Circuits
The Iron Man and the Tin Woman
The Dry Pickwick
Afternoons in Utopia
Hellements of Hickonomics (scan courtesy of Grumbles)
Model Memoirs
Too Much College
My Remarkable Uncle
Happy Stories
Serendipity — a compilation by the bookmaker

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This compilation was created in collaboration with Grumbles and Mousewaffle, fellow MobileRead members. Many, many thanks!

If you have read Leacock before, come and say “Howdy” to some old friends. If you have not, the time is ripe to make some new acquaintances.
Either way, giggles and grins are guaranteed!

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[pynch]

Beautifully done! Thank you very much.

[Mousewaffle]

Well Done! If there is a Governor General's Award for anthologies, you should win, hands down.

[radius]

Excellent! Thank you for the collection.

Where does the title come from? Is it the title of an existing collection? Or did you and Mousewaffle make it up?

[litemotif]

Thanks very much, GrannyGump, and a tip of the hat to Grumbles and Mousewaffle.

[GrannyGrump]

Thank you all for the very kind words! Grumbles and Mousewaffle do indeed deserve big thanks.

Mousewaffle coined the title, which very brightly (tee hee) implies both physical light, and lightness of spirit and expression.

As far as I know, this is the most extensive collection ever of Leacock's humor. I hope you all enjoy the book. Leacock deserves to be brought back into the spotlight outside the Canadian borders!