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Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses

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Number of Chapters: 41

Length: 4 hours and 40 minutes

Language: English

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)

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