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My Remarkable Uncle
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Artikel-Nr:
9780771094149
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2010
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Stephen Leacock
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
193x130x15 mm
Serie:
New Canadian Library
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Stephen Leacock, Afterword by Barbara Nimmo
This celebrated collection of sketches sparkles with Stephen Leacock's humour and shines with the warmth of his wit.The comical E.P., star of the title essay, "My Remarkable Uncle," is a classic Leacock character. He is president of a railway with a letterhead but no rails, and he heads a bank that boasts credit but no cash whatsoever - all of which trouble E.P. not in the least.My Remarkable Uncle, a wonderful smorgasbord of mirth served up by a master of comedy, includes several essays, a short story, a political parable, and personal reflections on a dizzying array of subjects.Here, in rich abundance, are the inspired nonsense and the unerring eye for human folly that have made Stephen Leacock Canada's most celebrated humorist.
SOME MEMORIESMy Remarkable Uncle The Old Farm and the New Frame The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen LITERARY STUDIESThe British Soldier The Mathematics of the Lost Chord The Passing of the Kitchen Come Back to School What’s in a Name? Who Canonizes the Classics? Among the Antiques SPORTING SECTIONWhat Is a Sport? Why Do We Fish? When Fellers Go Fishing Eating Air STUDIES IN HUMOURThe Saving Grace of Humour Laughing Off Our History War and Humour MEMORIES OF CHRISTMASChristmas Rapture Christmas Shopping War- time Santa Claus War- time Christmas GOODWILL STUFFCricket for Americans Our American Visitors A Welcome to a Visiting American Why Is the United States? The Transit of Venus Migration in English Literature Three Score and Ten Index: There Is No Index L’Envoi: A Salutation Across the Sea Afterword